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).
p.52 Plato in the early or Socratic dialogues thinks all desire aims at the agent's
own final good, i.e. his optimal happiness, in such a way that the agent always desires what he believes
best overall for himself and does not desire anything he believes incompatible with this.
p.54 Is it not the power of appearance that causes us to wander, often causing us to take
things topsy-turvy and to regret our actions and choices with respect to things large and small?
