Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER I: Psychology of the Moral Act by Aristotle -- The Soul -- Orectic Soul - Moral Character -- Moral Choice - προαίρεσις -- Immanent Good - The Ends of Action -- The Doctrine of the Mean in Making Decisions -- Moral Perception - αἴσθησις -- Practical Syllogism in Making Decisions -- Free Will in a Moral Act -- Nemo sua sponte peccat? -- The Nature of Ethical Knowledge -- The Definition of Emotion -- Nonrational Desires -- Passion - θυμός -- Lacking Command (over oneself) - ἀκρασία -- Choice and a stable character -- Appendix: Woman in Aristotelian Psychology -- CHAPTER II: Euripides and 'Constrained Will' -- Euripides and the 'Socratic Paradoxes' -- The Influence of Sophistic Thought on the Works of Euripides -- Aristotelian Akrasia in the Works of Euripides -- The Character of Phaedra as an Example of Akrasia per analogiam -- The definition of Aristotle -- The Acratic Case of Phaedra - γνώμης ὁδός -- The stage of penetration - 'Eros that hurts' -- The stage of concealment (karteria) and virtuous life (enkrateia) -- The stage of self-destruction -- Summary -- CHAPTER IIISeneca and the 'sickness of the soul' -- Emotions in the Stoic ethical thought -- The role of poetry in the philosophical system of Seneca -- Tragedy as a form of dramaturgy in Rome -- The Theatre of Seneca -- Phaedra by Seneca - sources and contaminations -- The structure of tragic plot in Phaedra -- The stage of hope -- The stage of shame and conce -- The stage of self-destruction -- Summary -- CHAPTER IV: Racine and the Monograph of Love -- Tragedy and Tragism in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance -- The Inspirations of Jean Baptiste Racine -- The Dramaturgy of Jean Baptiste Racine -- The Evolution of the Myth of Phaedra in the Tragedyby Jean Baptiste Racine -- Phaedra's Self-analysis -- The Triangle of Authority.

Hippolytus' Confession -- Phaedra's Confession -- The Argument of Power -- Consciousness of Betrayal -- Jealousy -- Summary -- Conclusion -- Sources -- Index nominum.