Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Book VII Symposium Aristotelicum

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 discussesweakness of will in its first ten chapters, then turns in the last four chapters to pleasure and its relation to the supreme human good.

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

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