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

Each essay provides a detailed commentary on the relevant part of Book VII... the chapters are uniformly of a high quality, and each has something fresh to say about a text on the whole has received a great deal of attention

• Introduction ; 1. Nicomachean Ethics VII. 1-2: Introduction, Method, and Puzzles ; 2. Nicomachean Ethics VII. 3: Varieties of akrasia ; 3. Nicomachean Ethics VII. 4: Plain and qualified akrasia ; 4. Nicomachean Ethics VII, 1148b15-1150a8: Beastliness, irascibility and akrasia ; 5. Nicomachean Ethics VII, 1150a9-1150b28: Akrasia and self-control, and softness and endurance ; 6. Nicomachean Ethics VII, 1150b29-1151b22: Akrasia, enkrateia, and some look-alikes ; 7. Nicomachean Ethics VII. 11: (In) Continence in Context ; 8. Nicomachean Ethics VII. 11-12: Pleasure: The antihedonists' challenge ; 9. Nicomachean Ethics VII. 14, 1153b1-1154a21 : Pleasure and eudaimonia ; 10. Nicomachean Ethics NE VII. 14, 1154a 22-b34: The pain of the living and divine pleasure