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Aristotle on Shame and Learning to Be Good (Hardcover, 1)
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Aristotle on Shame and Learning to Be Good (Hardcover, 1)
Series: Oxford Aristotle Studies Series
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Marta Jimenez presents a novel interpretation of Aristotle's
account of the role of shame in moral development. Despite shame's
bad reputation as a potential obstacle to the development of moral
autonomy, Jimenez argues that shame is for Aristotle the
proto-virtue of those learning to be good, since it is the emotion
that equips them with the seeds of virtue. Other emotions such as
friendliness, righteous indignation, emulation, hope, and even
spiritedness may play important roles on the road to virtue.
However, shame is the only one that Aristotle repeatedly associates
with moral progress. The reason is that shame can move young agents
to perform good actions and avoid bad ones in ways that
appropriately resemble not only the external behavior but also the
orientation and receptivity to moral value characteristic of
virtuous people. Through an analysis of the different cases of
pseudo-courage and the passages on shame in Aristotle's ethical
treatises, Jimenez argues that shame places young people on the
path to becoming good by turning their attention to considerations
about the perceived nobility and praiseworthiness of their own
actions and character. Although they are not yet virtuous, learners
with a sense of shame can appreciate the value of the noble and
guide their actions by a genuine interest in doing the right thing.
Shame, thus, enables learners to perform virtuous actions in the
right way before they possess practical wisdom or stable
dispositions of character. This proposal solves a long-debated
problem concerning Aristotle's notion of habituation by showing
that shame provides motivational continuity between the actions of
the learners and the virtuous dispositions that they will
eventually acquire
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