Perception and Evaluation
Aristotle on the Moral Imagination
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9690675 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R J Hankinson (The University of Texas at Austin, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 41-64 |
| Publication date | 1990-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Dialogue (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-2173 • E-ISSN: 1759-0949 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0012217300012762 |
| OpenAlex | W1987727622 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 8 |
In recent years, Aristotle's treatment of the imagination has become the subject of renewed interest. A pioneering paper by Malcolm Schofield argued that, far from being the rag-bag of widely separate and more or less unrelated concerns that it had previously been generally taken to be, phantasia was, for Aristotle, a ‘loose-knit family concept’ covering all aspects of what Schofield labelled ‘non-paradigmatic sensory experience’. With that conclusion I am more or less in agreement, although only on the condition that ‘sensory’ be given a suitably broad interpretation. My purpose in this paper is to tease out, in a necessarily limited and circumscribed manner, the implications of a proper understanding of Aristotle's developed concept of deliberative imagination, phantasia bouleutikê , for his moral theory and his account of rational action, and to indicate ways in which this is related to his accounts of mental imaging in the rest of the Parva Naturalia
Action (physics) · Aesthetics · Epistemology · Interpretation (philosophy) · Perception · Subject (documents) · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Philosophy · Psychology
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Aristotle’s Analysis of Akratic Action
Was Aristotle a Humean? A Partisan Guide to the Debate
The Relationship between Aristotle’s Ethical and Political Discourses ( NE x 9)
The Eudemian Ethics and Its Controversial Relationship to the Nicomachean Ethics
Philosophical Virtue
Happiness and the External Goods
Why Is Aristotle’s Virtue of Character a Mean? Taking Aristotle at His Word ( NE ii 6)
The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
Cause and Explanation in Ancient Greek Thought
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.52 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2014 (14) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |