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The Brute Within: Appetitive Desire in Plato and Aristotle
Hendrik Lorenz
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Description for The Brute Within: Appetitive Desire in Plato and Aristotle
hardcover. Presents a comprehensive study of Plato's and Aristotle's conceptions of non-rational desire. This book shows this as something that humans share with animals, and which aims primarily at the pleasures of food, drink, and sex. It also explores the cognitive resources that both philosophers make available for the explanation of such desires. Series: Oxford Philosophical Monographs. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCA; HPM; JMA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 507. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
Hendrik 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. Lorenz explores the cognitive resources that both philosophers make available for the explanation of such desires, and what they take rationality to add to the motivational structure of human beings. In doing so, he exposes a remarkable degree of continuity between Plato's and Aristotle's thought in this area. He also sheds fresh light, not only on both philosophers' theories of motivation, but also on ... Read more
Hendrik 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. Lorenz explores the cognitive resources that both philosophers make available for the explanation of such desires, and what they take rationality to add to the motivational structure of human beings. In doing so, he exposes a remarkable degree of continuity between Plato's and Aristotle's thought in this area. He also sheds fresh light, not only on both philosophers' theories of motivation, but also on ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Clarendon Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
Series
Oxford Philosophical Monographs
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199290635
SKU
KSG0034228
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Ref
99-1
Reviews for The Brute Within: Appetitive Desire in Plato and Aristotle
Hendrik Lorenz offers a challenging, tightly argued exploration of the non-rational parts of the soul in Plato and Aristotle... strongly recommended to those interested in Plato's reasons for dividing the soul and his thinking about non-rational motivation in such dialogues as Republic Timaeus and Philebus
Ronald Polansky, Journal of Hellenic Studies
fine study...it is the mark of a ... Read more
Ronald Polansky, Journal of Hellenic Studies
fine study...it is the mark of a ... Read more