Will as Commitment and Resolve : : An Existential Account of Creativity, Love, Virtue, and Happiness / / John J. Davenport.

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• VerfasserIn: Davenport, John J.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (702 p.)

In contemporary philosophy, the will is often regarded as a sheer philosophical fiction. In Will as Commitment and Resolve, Davenport argues 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 mo...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Preface: The Project of an Existential Theory of Personhood
• Part I: The Idea of Willing as Projective Motivation
• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Heroic Will in Eastern and Western Perspectives
• 3. From Action Theory to Projective Motivation
• 4. The Erosiac Structure of Desire in Plato and Aristotle
• 5. Aristotelian Desires and the Problems of Egoism
• Part II: The Existential Critique of Eudaimonism
• 6. Psychological Eudaimonism: A Reading of Aristotle
• 7. The Paradox of Eudaimonism: An Existential Critique
• 8. Contemporary Solutions to the Paradox and Their Problems
• Part III: Case Studies for the Existential Will as Projective Motivation
• 9. Divine and Human Creativity: From Plato to Levinas
• 10. Radical Evil and Projective Strength of Will
• 11. Scotus and Kant: The Moral Will and Its Limits
• 12. Existential Psychology and Intrinsic Motivation: Deci, Maslow, and Frankl
• 13. Caring, Aretaic Commitment, and Existential Resolve
• 14. An Existential Objectivist Account of What Is Worth Caring About
• Conclusion: The Danger of Willfulness Revisited
• Notes
• Glossary of Definitions, Technical Terms, and Abbreviations
• Bibliography
• Index