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.
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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 first weakness of will and then pleasure.
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Introduction ; 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
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Each 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
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One of the classic texts of Western thought Aristotle's account of virtue is central to the comtemporary debate on this topic Eminent international team of authors
Carlo Natali is Professor of History of Ancient Philosophy at the Università "Ca' Foscari" di Venezia.
One of the classic texts of Western thought Aristotle's account of virtue is central to the comtemporary debate on this topic Eminent international team of authors

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ISBN
9780199558445
Publisert
2009
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Oxford University Press
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608 gr
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241 mm
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162 mm
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22 mm
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UP, 05
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Engelsk
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306

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