Akrasia in Greek Philosophy: From Socrates to Plotinus

by Christopher Bobonich (Editor)

The 13 contributions of this collective offer new and challenging ways of reading well-known and more neglected texts on akrasia (lack of control, or weakness of will) in Greek philosophy (Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Plotinus).

Genres: Philosophy

307 pages, Hardcover

First published April 30, 2007

About the author

Christopher Bobonich is CI Lewis Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University. He is the author of Plato's Utopia Recast: His Later Ethics and Politics (Oxford) He edited and contributed to Plato's Laws: A Critical Guide (Cambridge). He previously taught at the University of Chicago, was a Fellow at the Princeton University Center for Human Values, and Junior Fellow of the National Center for Hellenic Studies.