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Anthony J. Celano - Das Problem der Willenschwäche in der mittelalterlichen Philosophie - Journal of the History of Philosophy 45:3 Journal of the History of Philosophy 45.3 494-495 Muse Search Journals This Journal Contents Reviewed by Anthony Celano Stonehill College Tobias Hoffmann, Jörn Müller, and Matthias Perkams, editors. Das Problem der Willenschwäche in der mittelalterlichen Philosophie. Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie médiévales. Bibliotheca 8. Leuven: Peeters, 2006. Pp. iv + 377. Paper, e69.00. This volume contains revised versions of thirteen papers delivered at a 2004 conference at Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena, on moral weakness in medieval thought. The contributors, a group of scholars both new and established, demonstrate the variety and richness in medieval authors' approach to the topic. As the editors explain in their introduction, moral weakness may be formulated as the phenomenon that someone does not do what one..