Aristotle on desire /
Desire is a central concept in Aristotle's ethical and psychological works, but he does not provide us with a systematic treatment of the notion itself. This book reconstructs the account of desire latent in his various scattered remarks on the subject and analyses its role in his moral psychol...
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Cambridge :
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2012.
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| Series: | Cambridge classical studies.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I. Desires and Objects of Desire
- 1. The range of states Aristotle counts as desires (orexeis)
- 2. Some general considerations about objects of desire (orekta) for Aristotle
- 3. Desire (orexis) and the good
- Part II. Aristotle's Classifications of Desire
- 4. Species of desire I: epithumia (pleasure-based desire)
- 5. Species of desire II: thumos (retaliatory desire)
- 6. Species of desire III: boulêsis (good-based desire)
- 7. Rational and non-rational desire
- Part III. Further Reflections
- 8. Some reflections about Aristotle's broad and narrow notions of desire
- 9. Aristotle's moral psychology.
