The Weakness of the Will
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Problems of Philosophy
ISBN-10
0415034353
ISBN-13
9780415034357
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 4th, 1990
Print length
232 Pages
Weight
600 grams
Product Classification:
Ethics & moral philosophy
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Considering the philosophical reasons why people will sometimes deliberately take the worst course of action, this book examines theories put forward by Plato, Aristotle and the Stoics. The author argues the case for weakness to be considered irrational.
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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