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| Author(s): |
Angelo Antonio Pires de Oliveira
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas |
| Defense date: | 2023-02-03 |
| Examining board members: |
Lucas Angioni;
Inara Zanuzzi;
Priscilla Tesch Spinelli;
João Francisco Nascimento Hobuss;
Fernando Martins Mendonça
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| Advisor: | Lucas Angioni |
| Abstract | |
In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle argues that both character and reason are responsible for delimiting and implementing moral actions. The Aristotelian text, nonetheless, brings several exegetical and philosophical issues when one tries to determine exactly which are the roles played by character and reason in moral actions. There is a set of passages in the Nicomachean Ethics in which Aristotle apparently defends the following distribution of roles: the character is responsible for adopting the moral goals while reason has under its responsibility the task of determining how to achieve the goals. This distribution of roles, however, is problematic. It ascribes the role of adopting the moral goals to a capacity that Aristotle classifies as non-rational; furthermore, it restricts the role of reason to find the "means" to achieve those goals. However, in other passages, Aristotle seems to argue in favour of a different distribution of tasks. In such passages, the character is under the rule of reason, which is presented as a character's guide to moral issues. Aristotle's formulations seem to reveal a certain inconsistency in the distribution of roles between character and reason. In this thesis, I investigate the different formulations made by Aristotle with respect to the roles played by character and reason in the achievement of moral actions. I defend that, in a virtuously structured soul, reason plays the role of guiding character in regard to the goals to be pursued (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 17/23706-7 - Moral Actions in the Nicomachean Ethics: reason, emotion, and moral development |
| Grantee: | Angelo Antonio Pires de Oliveira |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |