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Akrasia in Greek Philosophy: From Socrates to Plotinus

By Christopher Bobonich

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Year
2007
ISBN
9004156704, 9789004156708
Open Library ID
OL9085888M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1332517 bytes)
Series
Philosophia Antiqua 106
Pages
307\316
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Discussions on akrasia (lack of control, or weakness of will) in Greek philosophy have been particularily vivid and intense for the past two decades. Standard stories that presented Socrates as the philosopher who simply denied the phenomenon, and Plato and Aristotle as rehabilitating it straightforwardly against Socrates, have been challenged in many different ways. Building on those challenges, this collective provides new, and in some cases opposed ways of reading well-known as well as more neglected texts. Its 13 contributions, written by experts in the field, cover the whole history of Greek ethics, from Socrates to Plotinus, through Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics (Cleanthes, Chrysippus, Epictetus).

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