Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book VII Symposium Aristotelicum [Hardcover]

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'sNicomachean Ethicsdiscusses 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.

Introduction,Carlo Natali
1.Nicomachean EthicsVII. 1-2: Introduction, Method, and Puzzles,John M. Cooper
2.Nicomachean EthicsVII. 3: Varieties of akrasia,David Charles
3.Nicomachean EthicsVII. 4: Plain and qualified akrasia,Hendrik Lorenz
4.Nicomachean EthicsVII, 1148b15-1150a8: Beastliness, irascibility and akrasia,Carlo Natali
5.Nicomachean EthicsVII, 1150a9-1150b28: Akrasia and self-control, and softness and endurance,Chris Bobonich
6.Nicomachean EthicsVII, 1150b29-1151b22: Akrasia, enkrateia, and some look-alikes,Sarah Broadie
7.Nicomachean EthicsVII. 11: (In) Continence in Context,Teun Thieleman
8.Nicomachean EthicsVII. 11-12: Pleasure: The antihedonists' challenge,Dorothea Frede
9.Nicomachean EthicsVII. 14, 1153b1-1154a21 : Pleasure and eudaimonia,Christof Rapp
10.Nicomachean EthicsNE VII. 14, 1154a 22-b34: The pain of the living and divine pleasure,Gwena?lle Aubry

Carlo Nataliis Professor of History of Ancient Philosophy at the Universit? Ca' Foscari di Venezia.