Phantasia In Aristotle S Ethics


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Phantasia In Aristotle S Ethics


Phantasia In Aristotle S Ethics
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Author : Jakob L. Fink
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018

Phantasia In Aristotle S Ethics written by Jakob L. Fink and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Ethics categories.


"In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle suggests that a moral principle 'does not immediately appear to the man who has been corrupted by pleasure or pain'. Phantasia in Aristotle's Ethics investigates his claim and its reception in ancient and medieval Aristotelian traditions, including Arabic, Greek, Hebrew and Latin. While contemporary commentators on the Ethics have overlooked Aristotle's remark, his ancient and medieval interpreters made substantial contributions towards a clarification of the claim's meaning and relevance. Even when the hazards of transmission have left no explicit comments on this particular passage, as is the case in the Arabic tradition, medieval responders still offer valuable interpretations of phantasia (appearance) and its role in ethical deliberation and action. This volume casts light on these readings, showing how the distant voices from the medieval Arabic, Greek, Hebrew and Latin Aristotelian traditions still contribute to contemporary debate concerning phantasia, motivation and deliberation in Aristotle's Ethics."--Bloomsbury Publishing.



Aristotle On The Apparent Good


Aristotle On The Apparent Good
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Author : Jessica Moss
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2012-07-19

Aristotle On The Apparent Good written by Jessica Moss and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-19 with Philosophy categories.


Aristotle holds that we desire things because they appear good to us—a view still dominant in philosophy now. But what is it for something to appear good? Why does pleasure in particular tend to appear good, as Aristotle holds? And how do appearances of goodness motivate desire and action? No sustained study of Aristotle has addressed these questions, or even recognized them as worth asking. Jessica Moss argues that the notion of the apparent good is crucial to understanding both Aristotle's psychological theory and his ethics, and the relation between them. Beginning from the parallels Aristotle draws between appearances of things as good and ordinary perceptual appearances such as those involved in optical illusion, Moss argues that on Aristotle's view things appear good to us, just as things appear round or small, in virtue of a psychological capacity responsible for quasi-perceptual phenomena like dreams and visualization: phantasia ('imagination'). Once we realize that the appearances of goodness which play so major a role in Aristotle's ethics are literal quasi-perceptual appearances, Moss suggests we can use his detailed accounts of phantasia and its relation to perception and thought to gain new insight into some of the most debated areas of Aristotle's philosophy: his accounts of emotions, akrasia, ethical habituation, character, deliberation, and desire. In Aristotle on the Apparent Good, Moss presents a new—and controversial—interpretation of Aristotle's moral psychology: one which greatly restricts the role of reason in ethical matters, and gives an absolutely central role to pleasure.



Aristotle On The Apparent Good


Aristotle On The Apparent Good
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Author : Jessica Dawn Moss
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
Release Date : 2014

Aristotle On The Apparent Good written by Jessica Dawn Moss and has been published by Oxford University Press (UK) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Philosophy categories.


Aristotle holds that we desire things because they appear good to us - a view still dominant in philosophy now. But what is it for something to appear good? This text argues that the notion of the apparent good is crucial to understanding both Aristotle's psychological theory and his ethics.



Aristotle S Theory Of Moral Insight


Aristotle S Theory Of Moral Insight
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Author : Troels Engberg-Pedersen
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 1983

Aristotle S Theory Of Moral Insight written by Troels Engberg-Pedersen and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Philosophy categories.


Aristotle's theory of moral insight



Perception In Aristotle S Ethics


Perception In Aristotle S Ethics
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Author : Eve Rabinoff
language : en
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Release Date : 2018-02-15

Perception In Aristotle S Ethics written by Eve Rabinoff and has been published by Northwestern University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-15 with Philosophy categories.


Perception in Aristotle's Ethics seeks to demonstrate that living an ethical life requires a mode of perception that is best called ethical perception. Specifically, drawing primarily on Aristotle’s accounts of perception and ethics in De anima and Nicomachean Ethics, Eve Rabinoff argues that the faculty of perception (aisthesis), which is often thought to be an entirely physical phenomenon, is informed by intellect and has an ethical dimension insofar as it involves the perception of particulars in their ethical significance, as things that are good or bad in themselves and as occasions to act. Further, she contends, virtuous action requires this ethical perception, according to Aristotle, and ethical development consists in the achievement of the harmony of the intellectual and perceptual, rational and nonrational, parts of the soul. Rabinoff's project is philosophically motivated both by the details of Aristotle’s thought and more generally by an increasing philosophical awareness that the ethical agent is an embodied, situated individual, rather than primarily a disembodied, abstract rational will.



Essays In Ancient Greek Philosophy Iv


Essays In Ancient Greek Philosophy Iv
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Author : John P. Anton
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 1991-08-13

Essays In Ancient Greek Philosophy Iv written by John P. Anton and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-08-13 with Philosophy categories.




Imagination And Art Explorations In Contemporary Theory


Imagination And Art Explorations In Contemporary Theory
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Author : Keith Moser
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-07-27

Imagination And Art Explorations In Contemporary Theory written by Keith Moser and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-27 with Philosophy categories.


This transdisciplinary project represents the most comprehensive study of imagination to date. The eclectic group of international scholars who comprise Imagination and Art propose bold and innovative theoretical frameworks for (re-) conceptualizing imagination in all of its divergent forms.



Akrasia In Greek Philosophy


Akrasia In Greek Philosophy
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Author : Christopher Bobonich
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2007-04-30

Akrasia In Greek Philosophy written by Christopher Bobonich and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-04-30 with Philosophy categories.


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).



Ethics For Rational Animals


Ethics For Rational Animals
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Author : Elena Cagnoli Fiecconi
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2024-03-14

Ethics For Rational Animals written by Elena Cagnoli Fiecconi and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-14 with Philosophy categories.


Ethics for Rational Animals brings to light a novel account of akrasia, practical wisdom, and character virtue through an original and comprehensive study of the moral psychology at the basis of Aristotle's ethics. It argues that practical wisdom is a persuasive rational excellence, that virtue is a listening excellence, and that the ignorance involved in akrasia is in fact a failure of persuasion. Aristotle's moral psychology emerges from this reconstruction as a qualified intellectualism. The view is intellectualistic because it describes practical wisdom as the sort of knowledge that can govern desire and action and akrasia as involving a form of ignorance. However, Aristotle's intellectualism is qualified because practical wisdom goes beyond grasping the truth about the human good, for it must also be able to convey the truth persuasively to non-rational cognition and desires. Through a study of Aristotle's works on ethics, psychology, and biology, Elena Cagnoli Fiecconi shows that there are unexplored ways in which rational and non-rational cognition and desire cooperate and influence one another. These include attention, the capacity of the rational part of the soul to manipulate the non-rational part of the soul, and the capacity to exercise phantasia for speculation, creativity, and research. She argues that, despite being integrated with non-rational cognition and desire, rational cognition of value struggles to control human behaviour and motivation. More specifically, she defends the key thesis that grasping the truth about the human good is not sufficient for humans to regulate action and desire. Therefore, practical wisdom does not merely grasp the truth about the human good, but it controls action and desire because it conveys the truth effectively to the non-rational part of the soul. Conversely, akrasia does not merely involve a lack of epistemic access to the truth about the human good, but a failure to persuade the non-rational part of the soul about it. This study of practical wisdom and akrasia also sheds light on character virtue, which emerges as a practical excellence whose task is to listen to reason.



Body And Soul


Body And Soul
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Author : Jennifer Whiting
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2023

Body And Soul written by Jennifer Whiting and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with History categories.


"Essays on Aristotle's "hylomorphism" - i.e., his conception of an organism's body as standing to its soul as matter (hulê) to form (morphê). Common readings - that there is only one form per species and that matter is what distinguishes individuals within a species from one another - are rejected in favor of the view that each member of a biological species has its own numerically distinct form. Original grounds are given for Aristotle's conception of soul as "the form and essence" of an organic body: he thinks it needed to account for the distinction between generation and destruction simpliciter and the mere alteration of existing stuff. The compatibility of this with Aristotle's conception of matter as the substratum of coming-to-be and passing-away is defended by appeal to a distinction between functionally defined organic parts (such as eyes) and the elements that constitute them. An original reading of the perceiving part of soul as one with the desiring part is given and asymmetries afforded by Aristotle's teleology explored. "Normative" cases (where formal explanations dominate) are contrasted with "defective" ones (where matter is incompletely "mastered" by form), with special attention to akratic subjects: their desires are not fully mastered by practical reason, which stands in normative cases as form to matter. The role played by Aristotle's conception of soul in his account of rational agency is employed against the dogma that he lacked the allegedly "modern" conception of "self" found in Locke and an original reading of Locke's account of personal identity is developed"--