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Jon Elster’s ‘Ulysses and the Sirens’ is about akrasia, more or less; in situations where we know we are likely to act against our own best interests, how do we
by setgree 3y ago
Jon Elster’s ‘Ulysses and the Sirens’ is about akrasia, more or less; in situations where we know we are likely to act against our own best interests, how do we credibly commit ourselves to doing the right thing, like Ulysses binding himself to the mast? One of the best social science texts I ever read
- foundart 3y agoThanks for that resource. On doing a bit of digging, it seems that Elster's more recent `Ulysses Unbound` expands on the themes of `Ulysses and the Sirens` and might be a better first read. Are you familiar with it?