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Note to players: Either an original-language term or its common English translation is acceptable. The example of a college student named Sam who thinks he should become a hermit is used to defend a “rational” form of this concept in a Nomy Arpaly paper. Huckleberry Finn’s refusal to reveal Jim’s location to Miss Watson is often used as an example of this concept’s “inverse” form. Moral principles shouldn’t be treated as universalized conditionals but rather as relational, prima facie judgments according to a Donald Davidson paper titled for this concept. This concept is paired with “vice” and “brutishness” in a work that defines its opposite as (*) enkrateia. (-5[1])In the Protagoras, Socrates argues against this concept’s possibility by claiming “no one goes (10[1])willingly after evil.” Book VII of the Nicomachean Ethics is devoted to this concept, which Aristotle contrasts (-5[1])with self-control. For (-5[1])10 points, name this Greek-derived concept where one fails to act in accordance with one’s best judgment. ■END■ (10[1]0[1])

ANSWER: akrasia [or incontinence; accept weakness of will; prompt on acting against one’s best judgment or similar before mention]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Erik ChristensenI'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks upTensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken106-5
Yihong ChenModerator Can't Neg me While in Alphaas rational as the square root of two power bottoms12010
Tony ChenSimpson Agonistes: The Crisis of DonutCommunism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country137-5
Adrian WongThe Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork OrangeYou cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit140-5
Henry AtkinsCommunism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole countrySimpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut15810
Ishan JoshiRyan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan QuizbowlersShe Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere1580

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