Aristotle on emotion a contribution to philosophical psychology, rhetoric, poetics, politics, and ethics W.W. Fortenbaugh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fortenbaugh, William W., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aristotle--Ethics.

Aristotle.

Emotions--History--To 1500.

Emotions.

Ethics, Ancient.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (142 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

London Duckworth 2002.

Summary:

When Aristotle on Emotion was first published it showed how discussion within Plato's Academy led to a better understanding of emotional response, and how that understanding influenced Aristotle's work in rhetoric, poetics, politics and ethics. The subject has been much discussed since then: there are numerous articles, anthologies and large portions of books on emotion and related topics. In a new epilogue to this second edition, W.W. Fortenbaugh takes account of points raised by other scholars and clarifies some of his earlier thoughts, focusing on the central issue: how Aristotle conceived of emotional response. Among other matters, he considers laughter, emotion in relation to belief and appearance, the effect of emotion on judgement, and the involvement of pain and pleasure in emotional response.

Contents:

I. Aristotle's Analysis of Emotional Response

I. Emotion and cognition

2. The study of emotion and demonstrative science

3. A contribution to rhetoric

4. A contribution to poetics

2. A New Political-Ethical Psychology

r. The development of a bipartite psychology

2. A peculiarly human psychology

J. An advance over tripartition as a political-ethical

psychology

4. Different from tripartition as a developing biological psychology

J. Consequences for Political Theory

r. Moral education

2. The imperfection of young people

3. Natural slaves

4. Women and their subordinate role

4. Consequences for Ethical Theory

I. A new conception of human virtue

2. Virtuous action without calculation

3. Moral virtue and the goal of action

4. Practical and non-practical emotions

5. Temperance and human appetites

6. Non-emotional modes of social interaction

Epilogue

r. Human emotion, doxa and pbantctsia

2. The effect of emotion on judgment, the involvement of pain and pleasure

J. An analysis emphasising similarity

4. Analysis involving difference in degree

5• Laughter as finding something funny

Index of ancient sources

Index of modern authors

Index of subjects

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

ISBN:

9781472598158

1472598156

OCLC:

654652269