Ethics for rational animals : the moral psychology at the basis of Aristotle's ethics / Elena Cagnoli Fiecconi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cagnoli Fiecconi, Elena, 1988- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aristotle.

Akrasia.

Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 226 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Moral psychology at the basis of Aristotle's ethics

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2024.

Summary:

Ethics for Rational Animals presents a new account of practical wisdom, virtue, and akrasia (acting against one's best judgement) through an original study of the moral psychology at the basis of Aristotle's ethics. It ranges over his works on ethics, psychology, and biology, and defends a novel view concerning Aristotle's intellectualism.

Contents:

Cover

Ethics for Rational Animals: The Moral Psychology at the Basis of Aristotle's Ethics

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

0.1 The Rational Part of the Soul and the Non-rational Part of the Soul

0.2 Book Plan

PART I. THE PECULIAR CONSTITUTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL

1. Rational and Non-rational Cognitive Faculties

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Having Reason Strictly Speaking

1.3 The Limits of Perception

1.4 Beyond Perception

1.5 Conclusion

2. Rational and Non-rational Desires

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Rational Desires

2.3 Non-rational Desires

2.4 Inverse Akratics and Stubborn Enkratics

2.5 Conclusion

3. Peculiarly Human Psychology

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Peculiarly Non-rational

3.3 Peculiarly Rational

3.4 Competition between Stimuli and Peculiarly Human Attention

3.5 Conclusion

PART II: COGNITION OF VALUE, DESIRES, AND ACTION

4. Pleasant, Advantageous, and Fine

4.1 Introduction

4.2 A Threefold Distinction

4.3 The Pleasant

4.4 Recognizing the Advantageous Perceptually

4.5 Musical Education and the Fine

4.6 Musical Education as Perceptual Training

4.7 Conclusion

5. The Cognitive Basis of Desire

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Evaluative Perception and Desires

5.3 Evaluative Thought and Desires

5.4 Evaluative Phantasia and Desires

5.5 Conclusion: Desires in Aristotle's Ethics and Psychology

6. Motivational Conflict and Cognitive Conflict

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Practical Cognition

6.3 On Dreams and Illusions

6.4 Cognitive Conflict and Akrasia

6.5 Conclusion

PART III: ETHICS FOR RATIONAL ANIMALS

7. Practical Excellence

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Having Phronēsis

7.3 Phronēsis as a Persuasive Rational Excellence

7.4 Virtue and Phronēsis

7.5 Conclusion

8. Akrasia

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Akrasia as a Rational Failure

Having and Not Using, Having and Not Having

A Phronetic Failure

Akratic Ignorance

Akratic Desires and Akratic Actions

8.3 Enkrateia

8.4 Conclusion

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Index Locorum Aristotelis

Index Locorum Platonicus

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Cagnoli Fiecconi, Elena Ethics for Rational Animals

ISBN:

9780198886860

OCLC:

1407240765