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Akrasia --- Aristotle.

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Act (Philosophy) --- Akrasia --- Irrationalism (Philosophy) --- Self-control --- Self-deception

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Discussions on akrasia (lack of control, or weakness of will) in Greek philosophy have been particularily vivid and intense for the past two decades. Standard stories that presented Socrates as the philosopher who simply denied the phenomenon, and Plato and Aristotle as rehabilitating it straightforwardly against Socrates, have been challenged in many different ways. Building on those challenges, this collective provides new, and in some cases opposed ways of reading well-known as well as more neglected texts. Its 13 contributions, written by experts in the field, cover the whole history of Greek ethics, from Socrates to Plotinus, through Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics (Cleanthes, Chrysippus, Epictetus).

Akrasia --- Philosophy, Ancient. --- History. --- Akrasia. --- Ethics --- Wilszwakte. --- History --- Ethics, Ancient. --- Morale ancienne --- Histoire --- Philosophy, Ancient --- Ancient philosophy --- Greek philosophy --- Philosophy, Greek --- Philosophy, Roman --- Roman philosophy --- Ethics, Greek --- Acrasia (Ethics) --- Incontinence (Ethics) --- Akrasia - Greece - History.

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'Weakness of the will' is often used as a shorthand expression to describe a situation in which a person acts against his/her better judgement. This well-known phenomenon poses a serious philosophical problem because it questions deeply our self-understanding as rational agents. This volume offers the first comprehensive investigation into the roots of the present discussion of this subject. Four principal areas constitute the basic framework of the history of this problem: (1) the debate on akrasia in classical Greece; (2) the Christian understanding of weakness of will in late Antiquity; (3)

Will. --- Ethics, Ancient. --- Ethics, Medieval. --- Akrasia --- History --- Will --- Ethics, Ancient --- Ethics, Medieval --- Philosophy, Medieval. --- Philosophy --- History.

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Academic collection --- Philosophy, Ancient --- Philosophy, Medieval --- Will --- Philosophie ancienne --- Philosophie médiévale --- Volonté --- Classical and mediaeval philosophy --- History --- Akrasia --- To 1500