Marta Jimenez

Aristotle on Shame and Learning to Be Good

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Produktbeschreibung

This book presents a novel interpretation of Aristotle's account of how shame instils virtue, and defends its philosophical import. Shame is shown to provide motivational continuity between the actions of the learners and the virtuous dispositions that they will eventually acquire.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 496g
• ISBN-13: 9780198829683
• ISBN-10: 019882968X
• Artikelnr.: 60605808

Autorenporträt

Marta Jimenez is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Emory University. Originally from Spain, she was educated in Spain, Germany, the United States, and Canada. Her work focuses mainly on topics related to moral psychology, philosophy of action, theory of emotions, ethics, and political thought in Plato, Aristotle, and the Cynics. She has broader research interests in contemporary ethics, emotion theory, action theory, virtue ethics, and social epistemology.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1.: Becoming Virtuous By Doing Virtuous Actions
2.: Learning Through Pleasure, Pain, the Noble, and the Shameful
3.: Pseudo-Virtuous Practices, Pseudo-Virtuous Conditions
4.: Connecting Shame with Honor and the Noble
5.: The Mixed Nature of Shame
6.: Shame as the Proto-Virtue of the Learners
Conclusion - Shame, Love of the Noble, and Moral Development
Bibliography