Understanding Moral Weakness
Title | Understanding Moral Weakness PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel P. Thero |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 190 |
Release | 2022-05-20 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9401203423 |
This book considers the common human predicament that we often choose an action other than the one we perceive to be best. Philosophers know this problem as akrasia. The author develops a nuanced understanding of the nature and causes of akrasia by integrating the best insights of Socrates, Aristotle, Augustine, and Aquinas, and several contemporary philosophers.
Backsliding
Title | Backsliding PDF eBook |
Author | Alfred R. Mele |
Publisher | OUP USA |
Total Pages | 158 |
Release | 2012-04-20 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0199896135 |
In this book the author incorporates research in social and developmental psychology to understand the human behavior of weakness of will, or "akrasia."
Weakness of Will from Plato to the Present (Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy, Volume 49)
Title | Weakness of Will from Plato to the Present (Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy, Volume 49) PDF eBook |
Author | Tobias Hoffmann |
Publisher | CUA Press |
Total Pages | 337 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 081321520X |
In thirteen original essays, eminent scholars of the history of philosophy and of contemporary philosophy examine weakness of will, or incontinence--the phenomenon of acting contrary to one's better judgment.
The Weakness of the Will
Title | The Weakness of the Will PDF eBook |
Author | Justin Gosling |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 232 |
Release | 2002-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1134966814 |
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Aristotle's Conception of Moral Weakness
Title | Aristotle's Conception of Moral Weakness PDF eBook |
Author | James Jerome Walsh |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 199 |
Release | 1960 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
A Philosophical Reader on Moral Weakness
Title | A Philosophical Reader on Moral Weakness PDF eBook |
Author | Kirk Fitzpatrick |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 346 |
Release | 2009-01-01 |
Genre | Akrasia |
ISBN | 9781607970064 |
This text functions as a collection of primary source materials for researches and students of moral weakness. It is tailor-made for upper-division courses on Moral Weakness, Praise and Blame, Action Explanation, and other such topics. It can function as the text for Ethics, Moral Issues, Moral Decision, and other such topics. It can also function as a text for an Introduction to Philosophy, when augmented with other texts. In some contexts the text can stand-alone, but it functions especially well when augmented by secondary sources. By strategically pairing secondary texts with the primary texts, a professor can focus on different epochs, or selections, as personal taste directs. (From internet site "Linus Publications")
Reading Aristotle's Ethics
Title | Reading Aristotle's Ethics PDF eBook |
Author | Aristide Tessitore |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Total Pages | 172 |
Release | 1996-01-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780791430477 |
Presents the Nicomachean Ethics as a work of political philosophy, emphasizing the interplay between its practical political concerns and its underlying philosophic perspective and arguing that it is rhetorical in the precise Aristotelian meaning of the term.