Posterior Analytics and the Endoxic Method in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics VII

Eirene. Studia Graeca Et Latina 58:147-171 (2022)
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This paper revisits Aristotle’s discussion of akrasia in NE VII. 1–10. I try to offer a scientific reading of the book, according to which NE VII. 1–10 closely instantiates the main guidelines of Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics. I propose that NE VII. 1–2, which aims to establish the fact that akrasia exists, corresponds to the ὅτι-stage of an Aristotelian scientific inquiry, and NE VII. 3–10, which aims to explain both the cause and the object of akrasia, corresponds to the διότι-stage of the inquiry.

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Xinkai Hu
Southeast University

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