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First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The jackdaw in the jacaranda Mused on times gone by, But could not understand the causes, Nor see the reason why. Like the jackdaw, in his collection of poetry Justin Gosling muses on times gone by, tackling the subject of getting older, while looking at the world around him with a mixture of wit and nostalgia. Drawing inspiration from literature and nature, and experimenting with poetic form, this collection is the perfect companion to a moment of reflection and is sure to bring a wry smile to readers old and young alike. Justin Gosling was a philosophy tutor at St Edmund Hall, Oxford from...

Since before Plato, philosophers have puzzled over why it is that people will sometimes deliberately take the worst course of action. The book begins by examining the various theories put forward by Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics and a selection of medieval philosophers and discusses how and why later philosophers avoid the problem. In the second section, Justin Gosling argues that familiar ways of viewing the problem mislocate the apparent irrationality of weakness. The author then moves on to the traditional cases of being overcome by passion to argue for a further sense in which weakness may...