'Eph' hêmin', determinism and moral responsibility in Aristotle

• Grant number: 15/22490-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: April 01, 2016
• End date: March 31, 2020
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Philosophy - History of Philosophy
• Principal Investigator: Marco Antônio de Ávila Zingano
• Grantee: Dionatan Acosta Tissot
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 15/05317-8 - Theories of causation and human agency in ancient Greek philosophy, AP.TEM

Abstract

In the aristotelian theory of action, the expression eph' hêmin (up to us), which concerns the capacity of a agent to do or not to do an action, play a central role related to the idea of moral responsibility. The aim of the research to be developed, then, is to clarify the relation between eph'hêmin and moral responsibility faced with a difficulty: a kind of determinism in the human actions (causal or psychological) that seems to result of many passages of the Ethicae and other passages of the Corpus Aristotelicum. In this way, from an exegetical and analytical reading of the Aristotle's work, this resarch seeks dissolve these difficulties and to allocate correctly the notion of eph' hêmin in the general framework of his theory of action and moral responsibility. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

TISSOT, Dionatan Acosta. What is in our power, determinism and moral responsibility in Aristotle. 2020. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.