The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 5. The book is alphabetized by the whole headings of entries, as distinct from the first word of a heading. Hence, for example, abandonment comes before a priori and a posteriori. It is wise to look elsewhere if something seems to be missing. At the end of the book there is also a useful appendix on Logical Symbols as well as the appendices A Chronological Table of Philosophy and Maps of Philosophy. | 20 akrasia absence of passion is just evil when it chooses the worse course. This view of the will can be de-moralized by attaching it to long-term objectives generally or to reflective choice. Yet there are many problems in the whole project of postulating such a rational faculty which is an unstable structure built too rapidly on some familiar idioms and supposed requirements of experience. . reason as the slave of the passions. William Charlton Weakness of Will Oxford 1988 . Donald Davidson Problems ofRationality Oxford 2004 . Justin Gosling Weakness of the Will London 1990 . R. M. Hare Freedom and Reason Oxford 1963 . A. Mele Autonomy Self-Control and Weakness of Will New York 2002 . B. O Shaughnessy The Will Cambridge 1980 . S. Stroud and C. Tappolet eds. Weakness of Will and Practical Irrationality Oxford 2003 . Albert the Great c. 1206-80 . Born in the German town of Lauingen he studied briefly at Padua becoming a Dominican in 1223. He was a regent master at Paris 1242-8 during which time Aquinas was one of his students and in 1248 the two men became colleagues at Cologne. He was known as doctor universalis because of his encyclopedic knowledge displayed in his voluminous writings. He wrote extensively on scientific matters and also on theology and philosophy where he was heavily influenced by the works of Aristotle then reaching the Christian West accompanied by the commentaries of Muslim philosophers in particular al--Farabi and Avicenna. He was one of the earliest to realize that it was vital to work out a means of squaring Aristotelian philosophy with Christianity for Aristotle had highly persuasive arguments for his doctrines and those who would be persuaded by the arguments had to be shown that they could assent to the doctrines without in so doing implying the falsity of the faith. More than anyone it was Aquinas who carried out the task that Albert had recognized to be so necessary. . Aristotelianism. J. Weisheipl ed. Albertus Magnus and
