Perception in Aristotle's Ethics
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Description
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.
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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.
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Product details
- Paperback | 176 pages
- 152 x 229 x 15.24mm | 299.37g
- 28 Feb 2018
- Northwestern University Press
- Evanston, United States
- English
- 0810136422
- 9780810136427
- 2,824,478
Table of contents
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
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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
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Review quote
Stimulating and insightful, this is a very important book on Aristotle's claims about ethical life and its relation to embodiment, and issues of ethical life more generally. The book stands on its own as a major contribution to this literature."" - Drew A. Hyland, author of Questioning Platonism: Continental Interpreters of Plato and Plato and the Question of Beauty
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About Eve Rabinoff
Eve Rabinoff is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota, Duluth.
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