Ancient Doctrines of Passions: Plato and Aristotle

• Authors: Agnieszka Iskra-Paczkowska , Przemyslaw Paczkowski
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The subject of this essay is a discussion of the doctrines of emotions of Plato and Aristotle. According to both them it is impossible to oust the passions from the good, i.e. happy life. On the contrary, emotions are an important component of human excellence. We investigate this question with reference to Plato’s doctrine of the soul and his concept of a perfect life, and Aristotle’s ethics, poetics and rhetoric.

Keywords

EN

ancient philosophy; passions; ethics; rhetoric; poetics

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Studia Humana
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 21-28

Dates

published

2016-09-01

online

2016-11-16

Contributors

author

Agnieszka Iskra-Paczkowska

• University of Rzeszow,

author

Przemyslaw Paczkowski

• University of Rzeszow,

Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/sh-2016-0012