Aristotle on Thought and Feeling

Aristotle on Thought and Feeling
Title Aristotle on Thought and Feeling PDF eBook
Author Paula Gottlieb
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 189
Release 2021-01-07
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1107041899

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Argues that Aristotle provides an account of the interdependence of feeling, desire, and thought that is sui generis.

Aristotle on Thought and Feeling

Aristotle on Thought and Feeling
Title Aristotle on Thought and Feeling PDF eBook
Author Paula Gottlieb
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 189
Release 2021-01-07
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1009028294

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Aristotle's discussion of the motivation of the good person is both complicated and cryptic. Depending on which passages are emphasized, he may seem to be presenting a Kantian style view according to which the good person is and ought to be motivated primarily by reason, or a Humean style view according to which desires and feelings are or ought to be in charge. In this book, Paula Gottlieb argues that Aristotle sees the thought, desires and feelings of the good person as interdependent in a way that is sui generis, and she explains how Aristotle's concept of choice (prohairesis) is an innovative and pivotal element in his account. Gottlieb's interpretation casts light on Aristotle's account of moral education, on the psychology of good, bad and half-bad (akratic) people, and on the aesthetic and even musical side to being a good person.

Aristotle on Emotion

Aristotle on Emotion
Title Aristotle on Emotion PDF eBook
Author William W. Fortenbaugh
Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
Pages 112
Release 1975
Genre Philosophy
ISBN

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Ancient Anger

Ancient Anger
Title Ancient Anger PDF eBook
Author Susanna Braund
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 337
Release 2004-01-15
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 113945000X

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Anger is found everywhere in the ancient world, starting with the very first word of the Iliad and continuing through all literary genres and every aspect of public and private life. Yet it is only recently, as a variety of disciplines start to devote attention to the history and nature of the emotions, that Classicists, ancient historians and ancient philosophers have begun to study anger in antiquity with the seriousness and attention it deserves. This volume brings together a number of significant studies by authors from different disciplines and countries, on literary, philosophical, medical and political aspects of ancient anger from Homer until the Roman Imperial Period. It studies some of the most important ancient sources and provides a paradigmatic selection of approaches to them, and should stimulate further research on this important subject in a number of fields.

Aristotle on Desire

Aristotle on Desire
Title Aristotle on Desire PDF eBook
Author Giles Pearson
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 287
Release 2012-08-30
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1139561014

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Desire is a central concept in Aristotle's ethical and psychological works, but he does not provide us with a systematic treatment of the notion itself. This book reconstructs the account of desire latent in his various scattered remarks on the subject and analyses its role in his moral psychology. Topics include: the range of states that Aristotle counts as desires (orexeis); objects of desire (orekta) and the relation between desires and envisaging prospects; desire and the good; Aristotle's three species of desire: epithumia (pleasure-based desire), thumos (retaliatory desire) and boulêsis (good-based desire - in a narrower notion of 'good' than that which connects desire more generally to the good); Aristotle's division of desires into rational and non-rational; Aristotle and some current views on desire; and the role of desire in Aristotle's moral psychology. The book will be of relevance to anyone interested in Aristotle's ethics or psychology.

Virtuous Emotions

Virtuous Emotions
Title Virtuous Emotions PDF eBook
Author Kristján Kristjánsson
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 333
Release 2018-04-26
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0192537555

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Many people are drawn towards virtue ethics because of the central place it gives to emotions in the good life. Yet it may seem odd to evaluate emotions as virtuous or non-virtuous, for how can we be held responsible for those powerful feelings that simply engulf us? And how can education help us to manage our emotional lives? The aim of this book is to offer readers a new Aristotelian analysis and moral justification of a number of emotions that Aristotle did not mention (awe, grief, and jealousy), or relegated, at best, to the level of the semi-virtuous (shame), or made disparaging remarks about (gratitude), or rejected explicitly (pity, understood as pain at another person's deserved bad fortune). Kristján Kristjánsson argues that there are good Aristotelian reasons for understanding those emotions either as virtuous or as indirectly conducive to virtue. Virtuous Emotions begins with an overview of Aristotle's ideas on the nature of emotions and of emotional value, and concludes with an account of Aristotelian emotion education.

Thinking Through Feeling

Thinking Through Feeling
Title Thinking Through Feeling PDF eBook
Author Anastasia Philippa Scrutton
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Pages 362
Release 2011-10-06
Genre Religion
ISBN 144114577X

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Contemporary debates on God's emotionality are divided between two extremes. Impassibilists deny God's emotionality on the basis of God's omniscience, omnipotence and incorporeality. Passibilists seem to break with tradition by affirming divine emotionality, often focusing on the idea that God suffers with us. Contemporary philosophy of emotion reflects this divide. Some philosophers argue that emotions are voluntary and intelligent mental events, making them potentially compatible with omniscience and omnipotence. Others claim that emotions are involuntary and basically physiological, rendering them inconsistent with traditional divine attributes. Thinking Through Feeling: God, Emotion and Passibility creates a three-way conversation between the debate in theology, contemporary philosophy of emotion, and pre-modern (particularly Augustinian and Thomist) conceptions of human affective experience. It also provides an exploration of the intelligence and value of the emotions of compassion, anger and jealousy.