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Reducing the Effort in Effortful Control

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A Wittgensteinian Perspective on the Use of Conceptual Analysis in Psychology

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In the fourth Book of The Republic, Socrates tells the following story:

I once heard something that I believe, that Leontius, the son of Aglaion, was coming up from the Piraeus under the north wall from outside and observed corpses beside the public executioner. At the same time he had an appetite to look and again felt disquiet and turned himself away. For a while he fought and covered his face. But overcome by appetite (ύπò τῆϛ έπιθνμíαϛ), he stretched his eyes, ran towards the corpses and said, ‘See for yourselves, you wretches, replenish yourselves with the beautiful sight.’ (Rep. IV, 439)

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Shanker, S.G., Casenhiser, D.M. (2013). Reducing the Effort in Effortful Control. In: Racine, T.P., Slaney, K.L. (eds) A Wittgensteinian Perspective on the Use of Conceptual Analysis in Psychology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137384287_12

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