HONOR, ANGER, AND BELITTLEMENT IN ARISTOTLE’S ETHICS

• Authors: Robert Sokolowski
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The author considers the phenomenon of honor by examining Aristotle’s description of it and its role in ethical and political life. His study of honor leads him to two related phenomena, anger and belittlement or contempt; examining them helps him define honor more precisely. With his examination of honor the author shows how densely interwoven Aristotle’s ethical theory is; he illuminates such diverse things as the human good, political life and friendship, virtue, vice, incontinence, flattery, wealth and pleasure; he shows how the metaphysical principles of dunamis and energeia are at work in human affairs; he treats the passion of anger as well as the moral attitude of contempt that provokes it, and he situates both within the study of rhetoric.

Keywords

EN

Aristotle; honor; ethics; politics; anger; belittlement; contempt; friendship; virtue; vice; incontinence; flattery; wealth; pleasure; rhetoric

• Publisher: International Étienne Gilson Society
• Journal: Studia Gilsoniana
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 3
• Pages: 221-240

Dates

published

2014

Contributors

author

Robert Sokolowski

• The Catholic University of America, Washington, USA

Identifiers

ISSN

2300-0066