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Weakness of the will in medieval thought : from Augustine to Buridan / by Risto Saarinen.
Author
Saarinen, Risto
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English
Published/Created
Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1994.
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vi, 207 p. ; 25 cm.
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BJ251.W55 S23 1994
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Will
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History
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To 1500
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Akrasia
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Ethics, Medieval
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Will
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History
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Series
Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters ; Bd. 44.
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Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters, 0169-8125 ; Bd. 44
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Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. [194]-202) and indexes.
Contents
1. Introduction. 1.1. The Aim of the Study. 1.2. Some Historical Remarks in Modern Discussion. 1.3. Aristotle on akrasia. 1.4. Some Heuristic Models
2. Reluctant Actions in the Augustinian Tradition. 2.1. Augustine. 2.1.1. Free Will: Introductory Remarks. 2.1.2. Man's Inner Conflict. 2.1.3. Consent, Reluctant Actions and Choice. 2.1.4. Preferential Volitions and Latent Wishes. 2.1.5. Evil, Concupiscence and Continence. 2.2. Anselm of Canterbury. 2.2.1. The Human Freedom: Some Basic Ideas. 2.2.2. "Everyone Who Wills, Wills Willingly" 2.2.3. Modes of Willing; Relation to Augustine. 2.3. Peter Abelard. 2.3.1. Consent Without Will. 2.3.2. Consent as passio. 2.3.3. Willing the Consequences. 2.3.4. Later Writers on Involuntary Consent. 2.4. Peter of Poitiers. 2.4.1. The Augustinian Tradition in Lombard's Sentences. 2.4.2. Synteresis and Voluntarism. 2.4.3. Second-order Will and vellem. 2.4.4. Asking something "With a Condition" (Poitiers and Langton).
ISBN
9004099948 ((alk. paper))
9789004099944 ((alk. paper))
LCCN
94015058
OCLC
30400097
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