Description
Book SynopsisArgues not only that the will is the central power of human agency that makes decisions and forms intentions, but also that it includes the capacity to generate new motivation different in structure from prepurposive desires. This study is useful for philosophers at work in many fields.
Trade Review"A study of Platonic and Aristotelian theories of human motivation." -The Chronicle of Higher Education "Accessibly written, yet containing ample philosophical references, the book will be valuable for those seeking a revitalized existential perspective, and for those capable of working through significant breadth and depth concerning the question of the will. Recommended." -Choice "Not since Paul Ricoeur's multivolume effort to work out a hermeneutic phenomenology of the will have we seen such a thorough and rich account of this ever so difficult field of analysis." -- -Donn Welton Stony Brook University "The scope of Davenport's philosophical imagination and synthesis is magnificent...a fresh face for existentialism." -- -Mark LeBar The Ohio University "With this book of John Davenport--his first book--an important new voice emerges in the Catholic philosophical tradition." -American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly "Analytically brilliant, historically comprehensive, and of great importance to thinking outside philosophy." -- -Edward F. Mooney Syracuse University
