Perception in Aristotle's Ethics

Eve Rabinoff (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

176 Seiten

2018
Northwestern University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8101-3642-7 (ISBN)

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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.

This 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.

Eve Rabinoff is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota, Duluth.

Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Perceptual Part of the Soul
Chapter 2: Human Perception
Chapter 3: The Duality of the Human Soul
Chapter 4: Phronesis
Conclusion
Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	03.02.2018
Verlagsort	Evanston
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	280 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
ISBN-10	0-8101-3642-2 / 0810136422
ISBN-13	978-0-8101-3642-7 / 9780810136427
Zustand	Neuware