プラトンとアリストテレスにおける食欲 The Brute within : Appetitive Desire in Plato and Aristotle (Oxford Philosophical Monographs)

Lorenz, Hendrik

Oxford University Press（2009/01発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 240 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780199561698
• DDC分類 180

基本説明

New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2006. Presents a comprehensive study of Plato's and Aristotle's conceptions of non-rational desire. They see this as something that humans share with animals, and which aims primarily at the pleasures of food, drink, and sex.

Full Description

Hendrik Lorenz presents a comprehensive study of Plato's and Aristotle's conceptions of non-rational desire. They see this as something that humans share with animals, and which aims primarily at the pleasures of food, drink, and sex. Lorenz explores the cognitive resources that both philosophers make available for the explanation of such desires, and what they take rationality to add to the motivational structure of human beings. In doing so, he exposes a remarkable degree of continuity between Plato's and Aristotle's thought in this area. He also sheds fresh light, not only on both philosophers' theories of motivation, but also on how they conceive of the mind, both in itself and in relation to the body.

Contents

I. APPETITE AND REASON IN PLATO'S REPUBLIC; II. BELIEF AND APPEARANCE IN PLATO; III. PHANTASIA AND NON-RATIONAL DESIRE IN ARISTOTLE