The brute within: appetitive desire in Plato and Aristotle

Hendrik Lorenz presents a comprehensive study of Plato's and Aristotle's conceptions of non-rational desire, which they see as something that humans share with animals. Lorenz sheds fresh light, not only on both philosophers' theories of motivation, but also on how they conceive of th...

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Main Author: Lorenz, Hendrik 1971- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford [u.a.] Clarendon Press 2009
Edition:1. publ. in paperback
Series:Oxford philosophical monographs
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Summary:Hendrik Lorenz presents a comprehensive study of Plato's and Aristotle's conceptions of non-rational desire, which they see as something that humans share with animals. Lorenz sheds fresh light, not only on both philosophers' theories of motivation, but also on how they conceive of the mind, both in itself and in relation to the body.
Physical Description:229 S.
ISBN:9780199561698
0199561699

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