Aristotle on Practical Knowledge and Weakness of Will
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Release | : 1966 |
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Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Ethics |
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Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Ethics, Ancient |
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Author | : Norman O. Dahl |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1984-01-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1452908370 |
Author | : Norman O. Dahl |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0816612463 |
Practical Reason, Aristotle, and Weakness of the Will was first published in 1984. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. One of the central problems in recent moral philosophy is the apparent tension between the "practical" or "action-guiding" side of moral judgments and their objectivity. That tension would not exist if practical reason existed (if reason played a substantial role in producing motivation) and if recognition of obligation were one of the areas in which practical reason operated. In Practical Reason, Aristotle, and the Weakness of the Will,Norman Dahl argies that, despite widespread opinion to the contrary, Aristotle held a position on practical reason that both provides an objective basis for ethics and satisfies an important criterion of adequacy—that it acknowledges genuine cases of weakness of the will. In arguing for this, Dahl distinguishes Aristotle's position from that of David Hume, who denied the existence of practical reason. An important part of his argument is an account of the role that Aristotle allowed the faculty nous to play in the acquisition of general ends. Relying both on this argument and on an examination of passages from Aristotle's ethics and psychology, Dahl argues that Aristotle recognized that a genuine conflict of motives can occur in weakness of the will. This provides him with the basis for an interpretation that finds Aristotle acknowledging genuine cases of weakness of the will. Dahl's arguments have both a philosophical and a historical point. He argues that Aristotle's position on practical reason deserves to be taken seriously, a conclusion he reinforces by comparing that position with more recent attempts, by Kant, Nagel, and Rawls, to base ethics on practical reason.
Author | : Tobias Hoffmann |
Publisher | : CUA Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 081321520X |
In thirteen original essays, eminent scholars of the history of philosophy and of contemporary philosophy examine weakness of will, or incontinence--the phenomenon of acting contrary to one's better judgment.
Author | : Aristotle |
Publisher | : SDE Classics |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2019-11-05 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9781951570279 |
Author | : Risto Saarinen |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2011-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199606811 |
The question of why people act against their better judgment has always been prominent in philosophy. Risto Saarinen presents the first study of ideas about weakness of the will between 1350 and 1650. He shows how the understanding of human conduct and free will changed in this formative period between medieval times and modernity.
Author | : Justin Gosling |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2002-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134966814 |
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : C. D. C. Reeve |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2012-03-12 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0674065476 |
The notion of practical wisdom is one of Aristotle's greatest inventions. It has inspired philosophers as diverse as Martin Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Elizabeth Anscombe, Michael Thompson, and John McDowell. Now a leading scholar of ancient philosophy offers a challenge to received accounts of practical wisdom by situating it in the larger context of Aristotle's views on knowledge and reality. That happiness is the end pursued by practical wisdom is commonly agreed. What is disputed is whether happiness is to be found in the practical life of political action, in which we exhibit courage, temperance, and other virtues of character, or in the contemplative life, where theoretical wisdom is the essential virtue. C. D. C. Reeve argues that the dichotomy is bogus, that these lives are in fact parts of a single life, which is the best human one. In support of this view, he develops innovative accounts of many of the central notions in Aristotle's metaphysics, epistemology, and psychology, including matter and form, scientific knowledge, dialectic, educatedness, perception, understanding, political science, practical truth, deliberation, and deliberate choice. These accounts are based directly on freshly translated passages from many of Aristotle's writings. Action, Contemplation, and Happiness is an accessible essay not just on practical wisdom but on Aristotle's philosophy as a whole.
Author | : James Jerome Walsh |
Publisher | : New York, Columbia University Press, 1963 c1960 |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Ethics |
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