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3. The Two Selves in My Friend Addict

verfasst von : Li Way Lee

Erschienen in: Behavioral Economics and Bioethics

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

My friend Addict has two selves: good and bad. The bad self preys on the good self. Their interactions give rise to Addict’s periodic feeling of conflict. I find that, to diminish the bad self, we cannot simply try to harass the bad self or favor the good self; we must begin by diminishing the good self. This remedy works like the scorched-earth tactic in a battle. Only by starving the bad self will we succeed in preserving the good self.

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Others see addiction in similar light. Thaler and Shefrin (1981, p. 105) see it as a platform for a far-sighted “planner” and a short-sighted “doer.” Sen (1976) sees in it a “meta-ranking” of preferences of several selves. Etzioni (1986, p. 159) sees an addict as “at least two irreducible sources of value or ‘utility,’ pleasure and morality.” Weil and Rosen (1983) see addiction as the body of two relations, one with a person and the other with a drug like heroin.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
The Two Selves in My Friend Addict
verfasst von
Li Way Lee
Copyright-Jahr
2018
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89779-0_3

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