Aristotle and the Discovery of Desire
Monteils-Laeng, Laetitia
Aristotle and the Discovery of Desire - 2013.
70
In the last pages of On the Soul, Aristotle explores the conception of desire unified around a single psychic faculty, the desirous soul. For the rationally mature man, desire ( orexis) can be both rational and irrational. Furthermore, it's not the desire which gives to itself its own object. What does Aristotle invent with desire? A new faculty able to compete with reason? Or just a modus operandi bringing together some inclinations which are different or even mixed? Specific attention to the concept of boulèsis (wish) allows for the clarification of the problem of Aristotelian desire.
Aristotle and the Discovery of Desire - 2013.
70
In the last pages of On the Soul, Aristotle explores the conception of desire unified around a single psychic faculty, the desirous soul. For the rationally mature man, desire ( orexis) can be both rational and irrational. Furthermore, it's not the desire which gives to itself its own object. What does Aristotle invent with desire? A new faculty able to compete with reason? Or just a modus operandi bringing together some inclinations which are different or even mixed? Specific attention to the concept of boulèsis (wish) allows for the clarification of the problem of Aristotelian desire.
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