ABSTRACT
This picture of deliberate action immediately creates problems for the supposition that people might deliberately choose something thinking it to be the worse course. If a woman indulges in chocolates, knowing them to be bad for her health, then the pleasure of eating the chocolates must be her objective in that choice-she cannot possibly be taking her health as her good. No doubt this seems at first glance to fly in the face of the facts, but since it is not at all obvious what alternative account of deliberate action is available, it is worth giving Socrates a run for his money. So first I shall illustrate how he might deal with the apparently intractable facts, and then sketch some of the problems facing anyone taking a non-Socratic line.
