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Theorizing about patience formation – the necessity of conceptual distinctions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 October 2001

Ole-Jørgen Skog
Ole-Jørgen Skog
Affiliation:
University of Oslo, and The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
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Abstract

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.

Type
Research Article
Information
Economics & Philosophy , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , October 2001 , pp. 207 - 219
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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