Addiction and the Captive Will: A Colloquy between Neuroscience and Augustine of Hippo

by Cynthia Geppert

Twenty-first century neuroscience has discovered that in some severe cases, addiction may so constrain human freedom that the will is only able to choose to use substances of abuse. At this advanced stage, substance use has become the primary driver of salience, co-opting
and subsuming other moral priorities and human rewards. Scholars have investigated Aristotle's concept of akrasiaas an ancient mirror of this understanding and there...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0567713520
• ISBN13: 9780567713520
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"