Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book VII: Symposium Aristotelicum

by Carlo Natali (Editor)

Overview

A distinguished international team of scholars under the editorship of Carlo Natali have collaborated to produce a systematic, chapter-by-chapter study of one of the most influential texts in the history of moral philosophy. The seventh book of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics discusses weakness of will in its first ten chapters, then turns in the last four chapters to pleasure and its relation to the supreme human good.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780191565380
Publisher:	OUP Oxford
Publication date:	02/26/2009
Series:	Symposia Aristotelica
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	725 KB

About the Author

Carlo Natali is Professor of History of Ancient Philosophy at the Università "Ca' Foscari" di Venezia.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors viii

Editor's Introduction Carlo Natali 1

1 Nicomachean Ethics VII. 1-2: Introduction, Method, Puzzles John M. Cooper 9

2 Nicomachean Ethics VII. 3: Varieties of akrasia David Charles 41

3 Nicomachean Ethics VII. 4: Plain and Qualified akrasia Hendrik Lorenz 72

4 Nicomachean Ethics VII. 5-6: Beastliness, Irascibility, akrasia Carlo Natali 103

5 Nicomachean Ethics VII. 7: Akrasia and Self-Control Chris Bobonich 130

6 Nicomachean Ethics VII. 8-9 (1151b22): Akrasia, enkrateia, and Look-Alikes Sarah Broadie 157

7 Nicomachean Ethics VII. 9 (1151b23)-10: (In)Continence in Context Teun Tieleman 173

8 Nicomachean Ethics VII. 11-12: Pleasure Dorothea Frede 183

9 Nicomachean Ethics VII. 13-14 (1154a21): Pleasure and eudaimonia Christof Rapp 209

10 Nicomachean Ethics VII. 14 (1154a22-b34): The Pain of the Living and Divine Pleasure Gwenaëet;lle Aubry 237

Bibliography 265

Index locorum 271

Index nominum 287

General Index 291