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Aristotle'S Defence Of Philosophy In The Protrepticus

by Ronja (Tu Dortmund University) Hildebrandt

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 This book explores Aristotle's argument in his Protrepticus that philosophy is both useful and intrinsically valuable for all who can philosophize. Ronja Hildebrandt challenges the widespread view that the Protrepticus reflects an early, merely Platonic phase of Aristotle's thought, offering new insights into his surviving works.
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Aristotle On The Essence Of Human Thought

by Andrea Falcon, Klaus Corcilius e Robert Roreitner

~~104,66€~~ 94,19€ 10% OFF

 This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.Aristotle on the Essence of Human Thought offers a novel reading of one of the most difficult stretches of text in the whole Aristotelian corpus, De anima III 4-8, showing that this stretch of text contains a unitary and coherent account of the essence of the human capacity for thought. Aristotle gives this capacity the name nous. Nous is the first principle, and ultimate explanans, of human thinking. The volume argues for four key claims. The first claim is rationalism: humans come to know the world around us via two fundamentally different cognitive powers: nous and perception. They are fundamentally different cognitive powers because the nature of their corresponding objects is fundamentally different. The second claim is essentialism: the human capacity for thought is defined as a capacity for directly grasping essences of everything there is. It is this very capacity that Aristotle shows to be the principle of all human thinking. According to the third claim, separatism, human nous is a very special kind of power. It is unmixed with the body, has no dedicated bodily organ, and is separable from the body. As a result, it cannot be assimilated to any of the other parts of the soul. While nous belongs to our essence as human beings, it is not part of the natural world. Finally, the volume argues for embeddedness in the cognitive soul: human nous is always embedded in a cognitive soul, which among other things means that the distinctive activity of human nous--thinking--can only take place in the context of a larger set of activities which are common to the body and the soul.
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Aristotle On The Essence Of Human Thought

by Andrea Falcon, Klaus Corcilius e Robert Roreitner

~~104,66€~~ 94,19€ 10% OFF

 This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Aristotle on the Essence of Human Thought offers a novel reading of one of the most difficult stretches of text in the whole Aristotelian corpus, De anima III 4-8, showing that this stretch of text contains a unitary and coherent account of the essence of the human capacity for thought. Aristotle gives this capacity the name nous. Nous is the first principle, and ultimate explanans, of human thinking. The volume argues for four key claims. The first claim is rationalism: humans come to know the world around us via two fundamentally different cognitive powers: nous and perception. They are fundamentally different cognitive powers because the nature of their corresponding objects is fundamentally different. The second claim is essentialism: the human capacity for thought is defined as a capacity for directly grasping essences of everything there is. It is this very capacity that Aristotle shows to be the principle of all human thinking. According to the third claim, separatism, human nous is a very special kind of power. It is unmixed with the body, has no dedicated bodily organ, and is separable from the body. As a result, it cannot be assimilated to any of the other parts of the soul. While nous belongs to our essence as human beings, it is not part of the natural world. Finally, the volume argues for embeddedness in the cognitive soul: human nous is always embedded in a cognitive soul, which among other things means that the distinctive activity of human nous--thinking--can only take place in the context of a larger set of activities which are common to the body and the soul.
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Aristotle On What Emotions Are

by Giles Pearson

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 This book provides the first systematic interpretation of what Aristotle thinks occurrent emotions are and points to some philosophical merits of his account. It is argued that he holds that emotions are representational pleasures or distresses that are formed in response to other intentional states that apprehend their objects. Even this bare formulation of his view is notable in several respects. First, the idea that the pleasures or distresses of emotions are representational--directed at objects in the world (or ourselves)--contrasts sharply with accounts that identify emotions with non-representational sensations or feelings. Second, the notion that emotions are pleasurable or distressful responses to other intentional states that apprehend their objects provides a fundamental contrast with many current accounts which instead view emotions as (in part) modes of apprehension or kinds of epistemic state themselves. Third, Aristotle's view stands in opposition to motivational accounts of emotions, insofar as while he thinks that emotions interact with desires or motivational states in important ways, he does not think they are themselves (even in part) motivational states. They are representational pleasures or distresses alone. Together, these three points give Aristotle a novel understanding of the representational role emotions play; namely, neither descriptive, nor prescriptive, but reactive. Besides developing these ideas, both textually and philosophically, the book also explores how Aristotle individuates emotion types; his understanding of the material dimension of emotions; and how his view can provide a novel explanation of recalcitrant emotions, a notoriously problematic phenomenon for many recent accounts of emotions.
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Aristotle On The Essence Of Human Thought

by Andrea (Concordia University Montreal) Falcon, Klaus (Eberhard Karls Universitat Tubingen) Corcilius e Robert (Charles University, Prague) Roreitner

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 Aristotle on the Essence of Human Thought argues that Aristote's De anima III 4-8 contains a unitary and coherent account of the essence of the human capacity for thought, called nous. It is argued that nous is a part of the cognitive soul aimed at grasping essences, unassimilable to other parts of the human being.
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Aristotle On What Emotions Are

by Giles (Senior Lecturer In Philosophy, Senior Lecturer In Philosophy, University Of Bristol) Pearson

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 Providing the first systematic interpretation of what Aristotle thinks emotions are and pointing to some philosophical merits of his account, this book addresses, among other things, his view on how emotions form; how they relate to beliefs and perceptions; how they relate to desires; and how different emotions are distinguished from each other.
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The Undivided Self - Aristotle And The 'Mind-Body Problem'

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 Aristotle initiated the systematic investigation of perception, the emotions, memory, desire, and action. The Undivided Self argues that Aristotle's account of these phenomena is a philosophically live alternative to conventional modern thinking about the mind, offering a way to dissolve, rather than solve, the mind-body problem we have inherited.
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Undivided Self - Aristotle And The ''Mind-Body Problem''

by David Charles

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 Aristotle initiated the systematic investigation of perception, the emotions, memory, desire, and action. The Undivided Self argues that Aristotle's account of these phenomena is a philosophically live alternative to conventional modern thinking about the mind, offering a way to dissolve, rather than solve, the mind-body problem we have inherited.
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Aristotle On Shame And Learning To Be Good

by Marta Jimenez

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 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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Aristotle'S Theory Of Substance - The Categories And Metaphysics Zeta

by Michael V. Wedin

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 Michael Wedin argues against the prevailing view that Aristotle's views on the nature of reality are fundamentally inconsistent: the difference between the early theory of the Categories and the later theory of the Metaphysics reflects the fact that Aristotle is engaged in quite different projects in the two works.
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Aristotle'S Theory Of Bodies

by Christian Pfeiffer

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 Christian Pfeiffer presents the first full account of Aristotle's theory of bodies, the perceptible, extended, and demarcated substances that are the subject-matter of physical science. He shows that many parts of Aristotle's metaphysics and natural philosophy presuppose a general theory of body.
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Aristotle On Shame And Learning To Be Good

by Marta (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Emory University) Jimenez

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 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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The Undivided Self - Aristotle And The 'Mind-Body Problem'

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 Aristotle initiated the systematic investigation of perception, the emotions, memory, desire, and action. David Charles argues that Aristotle's account of these phenomena is a philosophically live alternative to conventional modern thinking about the mind: it offers a way to dissolve, rather than solve, the mind-body problem we have inherited.
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Aristotle On The Sources Of The Ethical Life

by Sylvia Berryman

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 Sylvia Berryman offers a fresh understanding of Aristotle's ethical theory, challenging the common belief that he aimed to give it a biological foundation in human nature. Berryman reinterprets Aristotle's views as a 'middle way' between the metaphysical grounding offered by Platonists and sceptical or subjectivist alternatives.
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Aristotle On The Sources Of The Ethical Life

by Sylvia Berryman

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 Sylvia Berryman offers a fresh understanding of Aristotle's ethical theory, challenging the common belief that he aimed to give it a biological foundation in human nature. Berryman reinterprets Aristotle's views as a 'middle way' between the metaphysical grounding offered by Platonists and sceptical or subjectivist alternatives.
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Aristotle And The Eleatic One

by Timothy Clarke

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 In the first book-length study of Aristotle's engagement with Eleatic monism, Timothy Clarke offers a detailed reconstruction and appraisal of Aristotle's criticisms of Eleatic monism, and uses these criticisms to work out how he understood the theory and the arguments given in its defence.
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Aristotle And The Eleatic One

by Timothy Clarke

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 In the first book-length study of Aristotle's engagement with Eleatic monism, Timothy Clarke offers a detailed reconstruction and appraisal of Aristotle's criticisms of Eleatic monism, and uses these criticisms to work out how he understood the theory and the arguments given in its defence.
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Aristotle'S Theory Of Bodies

by Christian (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen) Pfeiffer

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 Christian Pfeiffer presents the first full account of Aristotle's theory of bodies, the perceptible, extended, and demarcated substances that are the subject-matter of physical science. He shows that many parts of Aristotle's metaphysics and natural philosophy presuppose a general theory of body.
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Aristotle On Knowledge And Learning - The Posterior Analytics

by David Bronstein

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 David Bronstein sheds new light on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics, one of the most important, and difficult, works in the history of western philosophy. He argues that it is coherently structured around two themes of enduring philosophical interest--knowledge and learning--and goes on to highlight Plato's influence on Aristotle's text.
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Passions And Persuasion In Aristotle'S Rhetoric

by Jamie Dow

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 Jamie Dow presents an original treatment of Aristotle's views on rhetoric and the passions, and the first major study of Aristotle's Rhetoric in recent years. He attributes to Aristotle a normative view of rhetoric and its role in the state, and ascribes to him a particular view of the kinds of cognitions involved in the passions.
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The Powers Of Aristotle'S Soul

by Thomas Kjeller (Brasenose College, Oxford) Johansen

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 Thomas Kjeller Johansen presents a new account of Aristotle's major work on psychology, the De Anima. He argues that Aristotle explains a variety of psychological phenomena--including perception, intellect, memory, and imagination--by reference to the soul's capacities, and considers how Aristotle adopts and adapts this theory in his later works.
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How Aristotle Gets By In Metaphysics Zeta

by Frank A. Lewis

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 Frank A. Lewis presents a close study of book Zeta of Aristotle's Metaphysics, one of his most dense and controversial texts, commonly understood to contain his deepest thoughts on the definition of substance and related metaphysical issues. Lewis argues that Aristotle returns to the causal view of primary substance from his Posterior Analytics.
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How Aristotle Gets By In Metaphysics Zeta

by Frank A. (University Of Southern California) Lewis

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 Frank A. Lewis presents a close study of book Zeta of Aristotle's Metaphysics, one of his most dense and controversial texts, commonly understood to contain his deepest thoughts on the definition of substance and related metaphysical issues. Lewis argues that Aristotle returns to the causal view of primary substance from his Posterior Analytics.
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Powers Of Aristotle'S Soul

by Thomas Kjeller Johansen

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 Thomas Kjeller Johansen presents a new account of Aristotle's major work on psychology, the De Anima. He argues that Aristotle explains a variety of psychological phenomena--including perception, intellect, memory, and imagination--by reference to the soul's capacities, and considers how Aristotle adopts and adapts this theory in his later works.
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