Practical Reason, Aristotle, and Weakness of the Will

Dahl makes a genuinely counter-intuitive scholarly argument — that Aristotle had a coherent, defensible account of weakness of will — and backs it up with careful philological work and productive dialogue with Kant, Nagel, and Rawls. Four formal journal reviews from respected philosophers, ongoing availability through Project MUSE, and a 1984 publication date that still gets cited indicate this is durable academic work, not forgotten period scholarship. Exclusively for readers with a grounding in ancient philosophy, but within that audience it is a confident pick.