[…] I now want to question whether a person who enters into some kind of institutional activity, e.g. politics, should be considered fully rational if his preferences in no way reflect a respect for the commitments assumed by entering into that activity. Should not such preferences rather be considered an expression of deficient rationality or of an incomplete development of one’s character as a rational being?
– Knut Midgaard (1998)
[…] I now want to question whether a person who enters into some kind of institutional activity, e.g. politics, should be considered fully rational if his preferences in no way reflect a respect for the commitments assumed by entering into that activity. Should not such preferences rather be considered an expression of deficient rationality or of an incomplete development of one’s character as a rational being?
– Knut Midgaard (1998)