ARISTOTLE'S FUNCTIONAL THEORY OF THE EMOTIONS

• Authors: Chew Angela
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

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.

Keywords

EN

ACTION; ARISTOTLE; EMOTION; PHILOSOPHY OF MIND

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Institute of Philosophy of Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic
• Journal: Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 16
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 5-37
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Chew Angela

• Angela Chew, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, UK

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09SKAAAA058314