Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Skog, Ole-Jørgen

Titel

Theorizing about patience formation – the necessity of conceptual distinctions

Ist Teil von

• Economics and philosophy, 2001-10, Vol.17 (2), p.207-219

Ort / Verlag

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2001

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The concept of patience describes a person's ability to make prolonged efforts towards future goals, and his or her ability to consider long-term future consequences. Clearly, patience is a capacity that comes by degrees. On the following pages, a person will be said to be patient to the extent that his actions are motivated by future consequences. Hence, a person is not patient if he has the ability to see long-term consequences, while being unable to take these consequences into consideration when he decides how to act.