Backsliding
Subtitle: understanding weakness of will
By: Alfred R. Mele
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 145
ISBN-13: 9780199896134
Subjects: Akrasia
Description: People backslide. They freely do things they believe it would be best on the whole not to do - and best from their own point of view, not just the perspective of their peers or their parents. The aim of this book is to explain why that happens.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-140) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Weakness of will and akrasia; title: Weakness and compulsion; title: Accounting for backsliding: background and more; title: Self-control; title: Conclusion.