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Book SynopsisA 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.
Trade ReviewEach essay provides a detailed commentary on the relevant part of Book VII... the chapters are uniformly of a high quality, and each has something fresh to say about a text on the whole has received a great deal of attention * Robert Mayhew, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
an illuminating set of discussions on exegetical and philosophical themes from the different but complementary perspectives of prominent scholars in the field. * Paula Gottlieb, Polis *
Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. Nicomachean Ethics VII. 1-2: Introduction, Method, and Puzzles ; 2. Nicomachean Ethics VII. 3: Varieties of akrasia ; 3. Nicomachean Ethics VII. 4: Plain and qualified akrasia ; 4. Nicomachean Ethics VII, 1148b15-1150a8: Beastliness, irascibility and akrasia ; 5. Nicomachean Ethics VII, 1150a9-1150b28: Akrasia and self-control, and softness and endurance ; 6. Nicomachean Ethics VII, 1150b29-1151b22: Akrasia, enkrateia, and some look-alikes ; 7. Nicomachean Ethics VII. 11: (In) Continence in Context ; 8. Nicomachean Ethics VII. 11-12: Pleasure: The antihedonists' challenge ; 9. Nicomachean Ethics VII. 14, 1153b1-1154a21 : Pleasure and eudaimonia ; 10. Nicomachean Ethics NE VII. 14, 1154a 22-b34: The pain of the living and divine pleasure
