The Weakness of the Will

Name: The Weakness of the Will
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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By: Justin Gosling

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Hardcover | 4 October 1990 | Edition Number 1

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240 Pages

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21.6 x 13.8 x 2.54

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First Published in 2004. Since before Plato, philosophers have puzzled over why it is that people will sometimes deliberately take the worst course of action. The book begins by examining the various theories put forward by Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics and a selection of medieval philosophers and discusses how and why later philosophers avoid the problem. In the second section, Justin Gosling argues that familiar ways of viewing the problem mislocate the apparent irrationality of weakness. The author then moves on to the traditional cases of being overcome by passion to argue for a further sense in which weakness may be thought irrational, and to open up an unusually wide field of examples for consideration.

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"[A] first rate piece of work which will make a substantial contribution to the subject . . . Existing discussions of these problems tend to be abstract and excessively rationalistic. Gosling brings the problems down to earth, with a rich variety of carefully drawn examples and nice distinctions . . . forcing the reader again and again to question common formulations and standing presumptions. The resulting view is complex but convincing."-Professor Gene Mason, University of Minnesota "Gosling . . . has written a very good book as part of a distinguished series . . .."-"Choice, 1991

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