Aristotle on Desire

2012-08-30 Philosophy

Author : Giles Pearson
Release : 2012-08-30
Genre : Philosophy
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Download or read book Aristotle on Desire written by Giles Pearson. This book was released on 2012-08-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Aristotle

1988-02-11 Philosophy

Author : Jonathan Lear
Release : 1988-02-11
Genre : Philosophy
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Download or read book Aristotle written by Jonathan Lear. This book was released on 1988-02-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a 1988 philosophical introduction to Aristotle, and Professor Lear starts where Aristotle himself starts. The first sentence of the Metaphysics states that all human beings by their nature desire to know. But what is it for us to be animated by this desire in this world? What is it for a creature to have a nature; what is our human nature; what must the world be like to be intelligible; and what must we be like to understand it systematically? Through a consideration of these questions Professor Lear introduces us to the essence of Aristotle's philosophy and guides us through the central Aristotelian texts - selected from the Physics, Metaphysics, Ethics, Politics and from the biological and logical works. The book is written in a direct, lucid style which engages the reader with the themes in an active, participatory manner.

The Brute Within

2006-04-06 Philosophy

Author : Hendrik Lorenz
Release : 2006-04-06
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 403/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Brute Within written by Hendrik Lorenz. This book was released on 2006-04-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hendrik Lorenz presents a comprehensive study of Plato's and Aristotle's conceptions of non-rational desire. They see this as something that humans share with animals, and which aims primarily at the pleasures of food, drink, and sex. Lorenz explores the cognitive resources that both philosophers make available for the explanation of such desires, and what they take rationality to add to the motivational structure of human beings. In doing so, he exposes a remarkable degree of continuity between Plato's and Aristotle's thought in this area. He also sheds fresh light, not only on both philosophers' theories of motivation, but also on how they conceive of the mind, both in itself and in relation to the body.

Aristotle

1988

Author : Jonathan Lear
Release : 1988
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Aristotle on the Apparent Good

2012-07-19 Philosophy

Author : Jessica Moss
Release : 2012-07-19
Genre : Philosophy
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Download or read book Aristotle on the Apparent Good written by Jessica Moss. This book was released on 2012-07-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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