Weakness of the Will in Medieval Thought: From Augustine to Buridan (Studien Und Texte Zur Geistesgeschichte Des Mittelalters)

Weakness of the Will in Medieval Thought: From Augustine to Buridan (Studien Und Texte Zur Geistesgeschichte Des Mittelalters)

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Book Description
This book sets out to examine the medieval understanding of Aristotle's famous discussion of "weakness of the will" (akrasia, incontinentia) in the seventh book of his Nicomachean Ethics. The medieval views are outlined primarily on the basis of the commentaries on Aristotle's Ethics by Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, Walter Burley, Gerald Odonis and John Buridan. An investigation of the earlier Augustinian discussion concerning reluctant actions (invitus facere) rounds out the study. The recent studies of weakness of the will have neglected the medieval philosophers. The present volume fills this gap in historical research and shows that especially the conceptual refinement of the fourteenth-century discussion makes contributions that are comparable to those of twentieth-century philosophers.

Weakness of the Will in Medieval Thought: From Augustine to Buridan (Studien Und Texte Zur Geistesgeschichte Des Mittelalters),Risto Saarinen,Brill Academic Publishers,9004099948,Akrasia,Architecture,Ethics, Medieval,History,Interior Design - General,Medieval,Medieval Philosophy,Movements - Humanism,Philosophy,Philosophy Of Mind,To 1500,Will

Book Contents:

1. Abbo Von Fleury: De Syllogismis Hypotheticis (Studien Und Texte Zur Geistesgeschichte Des Mittelalters , No 56)
2. A Bilingual Concordance to the Targum of the Prophets: The Twelve (Iii)
3. A Comparative Edition of the Syriac Gospels: Aligning the Sinaiticus, Curetonianus, Peshitta and Harklean Versions (Etudes Sur Le Judaisme Medieval,)
4. Alberto Pinto Corporate : Contemporary Offices
5. Amdo Tibetans in Transition: Society and Culture in the Post-Mao Era (Brill's Tibetan Studies Library)
6. Between Saint James and Erasmus: Studies in Late-Medieval Religious Life : Devotions and Pilgrimages in the Netherlands (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions)
7. Caesarea Maritima: A Retrospective After Two Millennia (Documenta Et Monumenta Orientis Antiqui, V. 21)
8. Chinafood: Can China Feed Itself
9. Classic Meets Contemporary
10. Clement Marot: A Renaissance Poet Discovers the Gospel : Lutheranism, Fabrism and Calvinism in the Royal Courts of France and of Navarre and in the (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought,)

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