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Author Lorenz, Hendrik.

Title The brute within : appetitive desire in Plato and Aristotle / Hendrik Lorenz
Published Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (229 pages)
Series Oxford philosophical monographs
Oxford philosophical monographs.
Contents Parts of the soul -- The argument for tripartition -- Partition -- The simple picture -- Imitation and the soul -- Belief and reason -- Below belief and reason -- Preliminaries -- Phantasia, desire, and locomotion -- Desire without phantasia -- The workings of phantasia -- Phantasia and practical thought -- Reason and non-rational desire
Summary Lorenz presents a comprehensive study of Plato's and Aristotle's conceptions of non-rational desire. They see this as something that humans share with animals, and which aims primarily at the pleasures of food, drink, and sex
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-213) and indexes
Notes Print version record
Subject Plato
Aristotle
SUBJECT Aristotle fast
Plato fast
Plato. swd
Aristoteles. swd
Subject Soul.
Desire.
PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Humanism.
Desire
Soul
Verlangen
Wensen.
Motivatie.
Filosofia antiga.
Filosofia grega.
Platonismo.
Aristotelismo.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781435619005
1435619005
9780191604027
019160402X