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There is a strict sense of self-defeating behavior according to which the self that is defeated and the self doing the defeating are one and the same; in particular, the values that the self identifies with are defeated even though nothing “alien” is guiding the self. The possibility of informed self-defeating self-governance is puzzling if one abstracts away from cyclic and incomplete preferences. This chapter reveals the connections between cyclic preferences, incomplete preferences, and informed self-defeating self-governance. In short, the self-defeating patterns of choice that agents with cyclic and incomplete preferences must guard against are not to be explained in terms of the self losing control over behavior but as instances of informed self-defeating self-governance. |
