Giles Pearson

Aristotle on Desire

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book reconstructs Aristotle's account of desire from his various scattered remarks. It will be relevant to anyone interested in Aristotle's ethics or psychology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 573g
• ISBN-13: 9781107023918
• ISBN-10: 1107023912
• Artikelnr.: 35486919

Autorenporträt

Giles Pearson is a lecturer in philosophy at Bristol University. He has published a number of articles on Aristotle's ethics and philosophical psychology and is co-editor of Moral Psychology and Human Action in Aristotle (with Michael Pakaluk, 2011).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. Desires and Objects of Desire: 1. The range of states Aristotle counts as desires (orexeis)
2. Some general considerations about objects of desire (orekta) for Aristotle
3. Desire (orexis) and the good
Part II. Aristotle's Classifications of Desire: 4. Species of desire I: epithumia (pleasure-based desire)
5. Species of desire II: thumos (retaliatory desire)
6. Species of desire III: boulêsis (good-based desire)
7. Rational and non-rational desire
Part III. Further Reflections: 8. Some reflections about Aristotle's broad and narrow notions of desire
9. Aristotle's moral psychology.