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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.Description: 248 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780199606818 (hardback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 128.3 22
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"....the first book to cover the fascinating sources materials on weakness of will between 1350 and 1650."--Back of dust jacket.

"'Weakness of will' is the English equivalent of Aristotle's Greek term akrasia, which is extensively discussed in the seventh book of his Nichomachean Ethics...."--Introduction, p. [1].

Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-243) and index.

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