Title Weakness of the will / Justin Gosling.

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Description	1 online resource (ix, 221 pages).
	text file
Series	The Problems of philosophy
	Problems of philosophy (Routledge (Firm))
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-212) and indexes.
Contents	Book Cover; Title; Contents; Explanations and Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Protagoras; The Plausibility of Socrates; Aristotle; How Socratic is Aristotle?; The Stoics; Aquinas and Others; The Post-Medievals; What is the Problem?; Akrasia and Irrationality; Passionate Akrasia; Moral Weakness; Willing, Trying and Wanting; Varieties of Weakness; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.
Summary	Why do people sometimes deliberately take the worst course of action? This book examines the theories of weak will put forward by Plato, Aristotle and the Stoics. It also argues for a new approach to the problem of irrationality.
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Subject	Will -- History.
	Will.
	History.
	Ethics -- History.
	Ethics.
	Self-control -- History.
	Self-control.
	Will.
	Ethics.
	Self-control.
Indexed Term	Man Will - Philosophical perspectives
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Gosling, J.C.B. (Justin Cyril Bertrand). Weakness of the will. London ; New York : Routledge, 1990 (DLC) 89049681
ISBN	0203405234 (electronic book)
	9780203405239 (electronic book)
	058544918X (electronic book)
	9780585449180 (electronic book)
	9780415034357
	0415034353
	0415034353 (Cloth)