Volume 91, Issue 4, Fall 2017
Dietrich von Hildebrand
Martin Cajthaml
Pages 637-653
Von Hildebrand on Acting against One’s Better Knowledge
A Comparison to Plato
In this article, I present and analyze Dietrich von Hildebrand’s explanation of how acting against one’s better knowledge is possible. I do so by comparing it to Plato’s analysis of the same problem. By this comparison, I seek to show the specificity of von Hildebrand’s approach to the phenomenon which, since Aristotle’s time, has been known as “akrasia.”