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Aristotle on the Apparent Good - Perception, Phantasia, Thought, and Desire (Hardcover, New)
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Aristotle on the Apparent Good - Perception, Phantasia, Thought, and Desire (Hardcover, New)
Series: Oxford Aristotle Studies Series
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Aristotle holds that we desire things because they appear good to
us--a view still dominant in philosophy now. But what is it for
something to appear good? Why does pleasure in particular tend to
appear good, as Aristotle holds? And how do appearances of goodness
motivate desire and action? No sustained study of Aristotle has
addressed these questions, or even recognized them as worth asking.
Jessica Moss argues that the notion of the apparent good is crucial
to understanding both Aristotle's psychological theory and his
ethics, and the relation between them.
Beginning from the parallels Aristotle draws between appearances of
things as good and ordinary perceptual appearances such as those
involved in optical illusion, Moss argues that on Aristotle's view
things appear good to us, just as things appear round or small, in
virtue of a psychological capacity responsible for quasi-perceptual
phenomena like dreams and visualization: phantasia ("imagination").
Once we realize that the appearances of goodness which play so
major a role in Aristotle's ethics are literal quasi-perceptual
appearances, Moss suggests we can use his detailed accounts of
phantasia and its relation to perception and thought to gain new
insight into some of the most debated areas of Aristotle's
philosophy: his accounts of emotions, akrasia, ethical habituation,
character, deliberation, and desire. In Aristotle on the Apparent
Good, Moss presents a new--and controversial--interpretation of
Aristotle's moral psychology: one which greatly restricts the role
of reason in ethical matters, and gives an absolutely central role
to pleasure.
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