ARISTOTLE'S FUNCTIONAL THEORY OF THE EMOTIONS

Chew, Angela

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Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu

2009 | 16 | 1 | 5-37

Article title

ARISTOTLE'S FUNCTIONAL THEORY OF THE EMOTIONS

Authors

Chew Angela

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Placing Aristotle's ethical works in dialogue with the work of G.E.M. Anscombe, this paper outlines a functional definition of emotions that describes a meta-theory for social-scientific research. Emotions are defined as what makes the thought and action of rational and political animals ethical.

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ACTION ARISTOTLE EMOTION PHILOSOPHY OF MIND

Discipline

PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

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Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Institute of Philosophy of Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic

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Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu

Year

2009

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5-37

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ARTICLE

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Chew Angela, caamc2@cam.ac.uk

Angela Chew, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, UK

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09SKAAAA058314

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