Can I read Akrasia in Greek Philosophy: From Socrates to Plotinus (Philosophia Antiqua, 106) on EtoBox?

Akrasia in Greek Philosophy: From Socrates to Plotinus (Philosophia Antiqua, 106) by Christopher Bobonich; Pierre Destrée is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Akrasia in Greek Philosophy: From Socrates to Plotinus (Philosophia Antiqua, 106) about?

<p>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).</p>

Author

Christopher Bobonich; Pierre Destrée

Publisher

Brill Academic Publishers

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9789004156708

Subjects

History, Philosophy, Humanities