Weakness of will in Renaissance and Reformation thought / Risto Saarinen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saarinen, Risto, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Will.

Change (Psychology).

Philosophy, Renaissance.

Philosophy and religion.

Reformation.

Renaissance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The question of why people act against their better judgment has always been prominent in philosophy. Risto Saarinen presents the first study of ideas about weakness of the will between 1350 and 1650. He shows how the understanding of human conduct and free will changed in this formative period between medieval times and modernity.

Contents:

1. Ancient and Medieval Background

1.1 Plato and Aristotle

1.2 Stoicism, Paul, and Augustine

1.3 Medieval Aristotelians: Thomas Aquinas and Walter Burley

1.4 Medieval Voluntarists: Walter of Bruges and Henry of Ghent

1.5 Medieval Syntheses: Albert the Great and John Buridan

2. The Renaissance

2.1 Petrarch and Augustinian Voluntarism

2.2 Donato Acciaiuoli's Modified Thomism

4.2 Ramism and Humanism: Zwinger and van Giffen

4.3 Lambert Daneau's Christian Ethics

4.4 Textbook and System: Case and Keckermann

5. Conclusions and Epilogue

5.1 Akrasia from 1360 to 1630

5.2 Epilogue I: Shakespeare�s: Troilus and Cressida

5.3 Epilogue II: Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-283-26976-7

9786613269768

0-19-161940-X

OCLC:

755001161