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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Alfred R Mele |
| ISBN: | 0195094549 9780195094541 |
| OCLC Number: | 31013153 |
| Description: | viii, 271 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. Introduction: Self-Control and Personal Autonomy -- 2. Better Judgment: Nature and Function -- 3. Exercising Self-Control: A Motivational Problem -- 4. Self-Control, Akrasia, and Second-Order Desires -- 5. Self-Control and Belief -- 6. Self-Control, Akrasia, and Emotion -- 7. The Upper Reaches of Self-Control and the Ideally Self-Controlled Person -- 8. Transition: From Self-Control to Autonomy -- 9. Psychological Autonomy and Personal History -- 10. Compatibilist Autonomy and Autonomous Action -- 11. Problems for Libertarians -- 12. Incompatibilist Autonomy and Autonomous Action -- 13. Assessing the Denial of Autonomy. |
| Responsibility: | Alfred R. Mele. |
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Abstract:
This book addresses the related topics of self-control and individual autonomy. "Self-control" is defined as the opposite of akrasia - weakness of will. The study of self-control seeks first to understand the concept on its own terms, and its bearing on one's actions, beliefs, emotions, and personal values. It goes on to consider how a proper understanding of self-control and its manifestations can shed light on personal autonomy and autonomous behavior.
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