Perception in Aristotle's Ethics

Bibliographic Data

ID23136997
AuthorsEve Rabinoff (corresponding author)
Year2018
Publication date2018-02-15
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenuePerception in Aristotle's Ethics (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherNorthwestern University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/j.ctv3znz09
OpenAlexW170221731
ISBN9780810136441
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited95

Rabinoff strives to account for ethical perception (aisthesis) in Aristotle's ethics—to give it a place of importance in ethical choice and action—and to offer an account of the faculty of perception expansive enough to include reception of the ethical significance of particulars. The book is motivated by particular features of Aristotle's thought and by increasing philosophical awareness that the ethical agent is an embodied, situated individual, rather than a disembodied, abstract rational will. Traditionally, the soul has been understood to have a non-rational part characterized by desire and perception and a rational part characterized by thinking, knowledge, and argument. Depending on how the relationship between the sides is conceived, the non-rational is either a bane to be controlled by the rational, or plays an irreducible role in moral action. By establishing and accounting for perception's place in ethics, Rabinoff shows the importance for ethical life of integrating both.

Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Perception · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Medieval and Classical Philosophy · Medieval Philosophy and Theology · Philosophy · Psychology

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