If you are always “weak of will”—losing your temper every single time, doing nothing to avoid doing it next time—you are not weak of will, you are vicious. You claim to grasp the good, to know right from wrong, but in fact you hold the good to be something else entirely—the gratification of your urges, asserting your superiority over others, whatever. Wiping a tear of remorse after every conversation doesn’t make it better; at some point it adds the insult of self-pity to the original injury.
[…] But the public interrogation of morally tricky positions should model as its end, its telos, not doing X and whinging about it, but arriving at one or the other: stop Xing, or find a way to justify it.
Anastasia Berg ha scritto un saggio eccezionale che punta il dito contro la miseria etica e l’allegra auto-indulgenza circostanti.
(21/05/26)