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Note on the Contributors ix Acknowledgments xiii Note xiv Introduction xv

Socrates on Akrasia, Knowledge, and the Power of Appearance 1 THOMAS BRICKHOUSE AND NICHOLAS SMITH 1. The Traditional Theory 2 2. Devereux's Account of Socratic Motivation 12 3. An Objection Considered 15 4. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle 16

A Problem in the Gorgias: How is Punishment Supposed to Help with Intellectual Error? 19 CHRISTOPHER ROWE 1. Background 19 2. The problem of the Gorgias 25 3. A suggested solution 29 Postscript: 'ruling oneself 36

Plato on Akrasia and Knowing Your Own Mind 41 CHRIS BOBONIGH 1. Issues Raised by Recent Work on Self-Knowledge 46 2. Plato's Solution to the Puzzle of Apparent Akratic Action 48 3. The Implications of the Failure of Self-Knowledge 55

Unified Agency and Akrasia in Plato's Republic 61 CHRISTOPHER SHIELDS 1. Clarifying Questions about Akrasia 63 2. Two Simplifying Assumptions about Socrates in the Protagoras 67 3. Being Caught Unawares in Republic IV and Beyond 70 4. Agency, Akrasia, and Homunculi 77 Conclusions 86 VI CONTENTS

Thirst as Desire for Good 87 ROSLYN WEISS 1. The Objection 89 2. Is Socrates the Objector? 94 3. Desire in the Protagoras, Gorgias, and Meno 98

Akrasia and the Structure of the Passions in Plato's Timaeus 101 GABRIELA ROXANA CARONE 1. Lack of control and intellectual failure 102 2. Lack of control and tripartition of the soul 106

Plato and Enkrateia 119 LOUIS-ANDRE DORION 1. The reasons for an absence 120 2. The reasons for a (partial) rehabilitation 126 Conclusion 136

Aristotle on the Causes of Akrasia 139 PIERRE DESTREE 1. Desire and Phantasia: A reading of JVE VII, iii/5 from DA and DMA ! 141 2. Some difficulties considered 156 Conclusion: how Socratic does Aristotle remain? 161

Akrasia and the Method of Ethics 167 MARCO ZINGANO 1. Akrasia as a practical conflict between reason and appetite 167 2. Saving Socrates' thesis on the impossibility of akrasia 174 3. Aristotle's use of dialectics in EN VII 183

Aristotle's Weak Abates: What does her Ignorance Consist in? 193 DAVID CHARLES 1. The Knowledge Failure of the Weak Abates (1): The Pure Cognitivist Interpretation 195 2. The Knowledge Failure of the Weak Abates (2): The Humean Interpretation 199 3. The Third Way Introduced 201 4. The third way applied to NE/EE VI and VII 205 CONTENTS Vll

5. Some replies considered 208 a. One Humean response 209 b. An impure cognitwist reply 210 c. A n alternative cognitwist reply 211 6. A final methodological question 211 Conclusions 214

Akrasia and Enkrateia in Ancient Stoicism: Minor Vice and Minor Virtue? 215 JEAN-BAPTISTE GOURINAT 1. Akrasia and enkrateia in standard Stoicism 217 a. The place oj akrasia and enkrateia among virtues and vices 217 b. Akrasia, enkrateia and pleasure 225 2. Cleanthes and Chrysippus 232 a. Enkrateia as a cardinal virtue in Cleanthes 232 b. Chrysippus' ambiguities? 239 Conclusions 247

Epictetus on Moral Responsibility for Precipitate Action 249 RlCARDO SAIJ.ES 1. The psychology of precipitate action 251 2. Epictetus' 'Normative Argument' 256

Plotinus on Akrasia: the Neoplatonic Synthesis 265 LLOYD GERSON 1. Plotinus's Predecessors 266 1.1. Plato 266 1.2. Aristotle 269 1.3. Stoicism 272 2. Plotinus's Neoplatonic Synthesis 274 3. Akrasia and Freedom 278 Conclusion 281

References 283

Index of Ancient Sources 291 Index of Modern Authors 305 PPN: 266462030 Titel: Akrasia in Greek philosophy : from Socrates to Plotinus / ed. by Christopher Bobonich .... - Leiden [u.a.] : Brill, 2007 ISBN: 90-04-15670-4(hbk.)No price hbk.; 978-90-04-15670-8 Bibliographischer Datensatz im SWB-Verbund