Aristotle on Emotion / Edition 2

by William W. Fortenbaugh

Overview

When "Aristotle on Emotion" was first published it showed how discussion within Plato's Academy led to a better understanding of emotional response, and how that understanding influenced Aristotle's work in rhetoric, poetics, politics and ethics. The subject has been much discussed since then: there are numerous articles, anthologies and large portions of books on emotion and related topics. In a new epilogue to this second edition, W.W. Fortenbaugh takes account of points raised by other scholars and clarifies some of his earlier thoughts, focusing on the central issue: how Aristotle conceived of emotional response. Among other matters, he considers laughter, emotion in relation to belief and appearance, the effect of emotion on judgement, and the involvement of pain and pleasure in emotional response.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780715631676
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	11/14/2002
Edition description:	Second
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.31(d)

About the Author

W.W. Fortenbaugh is Professor of Classics at Rutgers University.

Table of Contents

Preface
1. Aristotle's Analysis of Emotional Response
1. Emotion and cognition
2. The study of emotion and demonstrative science
3. A contribution to rhetoric
4. A contribution to poetics
2. A New Political-Ethical Psychology
1. The development of a bipartite psychology
2. A peculiarly human psychology
3. An advance over tripartition as a political-ethical psychology
4. Different from tripartition as a developing biological psychology
3. Consequences for Political Theory
1. Moral education
2. The imperfection of voting people
3. Natural slaves
4. Women and their subordinate role
4. Consequences for Ethical Theory
1. A new conception of human virtue
2. Virtuous action without calculation
3. Moral virtue and the goal of action
4. Practical and non-practical emotions
5. Temperance and human appetites
6. Non-emotional modes of social interaction Epilogue
1. Human emotion, doxa and phantasia
2. The effect of emotion on judgement, the involvement of pain and pleasure
3. An analysis emphasising similarity
4. Analysis involving difference in degree
5. Laughter as finding something funny Index of ancient sources Index of modern authors Index of subjects

Editorial Reviews

"William Fortenbaugh's lucid analysis of the emotions in Aristotle was pathbreaking when it first appeared, and it remains without a doubt the best book on the subject."--David Konstan

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