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Aquinas on Emotion's Participation in Reason (Hardcover)
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Aquinas on Emotion's Participation in Reason (Hardcover)
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Aquinas on Emotion's Participation in Reason aims to present
Aquinas's answer to the perennial and now popular question: In what
way can the emotions be rational? For Aquinas, the starting point
of this inquiry is Aristotle's claim (EN. I. 13) that there are
three parts to the soul: 1) the rational part, 2) the non-rational
part which can participate in reason, and 3) the non-rational part
that does not participate in reason. It is the extent to which the
second part (the sense appetites, the seat of the emotions)
participates in reason that the emotions can become rational.
However, immediately after Aristotle introduces his tripartite
division of the soul, he warns that one need not delve into the
details of the division or the participation. Aquinas, however,
ignores Aristotle, and uses his precise metaphysics of
participation within in his sophisticated anthropology to great
effect in his ethics. Unlike Aristotle, to fully understand
Aquinas's thinking on how the emotions can become rational, we
simply must delve into the kinds of precisions that Aristotle
thinks are misplaced. When Aquinas's views emerge from these
precisions, he has a surprisingly level-headed and commonsense view
of how the emotions can become rational. On this point, he is more
pessimistic than Aristotle and more optimistic than Kant; he is
certainly not, as is he is often thought to be, the faithful
follower of Aristotle and the polar opposite of Kant. Nicholas Kahm
argue that Aquinas has a realistic and plausible view of how far
reason can go in shaping our emotions. Furthermore, his plausible
views can accommodate the serious current challenge raised against
virtue ethics from social psychology. The method has mainly been a
careful reading of primary texts, but unlike the rest of the
scholarship on Aquinas's ethics, Kahm is particularly sensitive to
Aquinas's historical and philosophical development.
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