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Aristotle on the Apparent Good - Perception, Phantasia, Thought, and Desire (Paperback)
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Aristotle on the Apparent Good - Perception, Phantasia, Thought, and Desire (Paperback)
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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