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Este texto busca apresentar duas teses absolutamente incompatíveis acerca do caráter. uma delas, denominada situacionista, baseada em investigações da psicologia moral contemporânea, sustenta que não há traços robustos que nos definam, que não há a ideia mesma de caráter, e que que todas as ações são determinadas pelas circunstâncias. Outra apresenta uma visão dura acerca do caráter a partir da ética aristotélica, sustentando que há algo que nos define, o caráter, e que uma vez adquirido, torna-se incontornável. Por fim, o (...) No categories |
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This dissertation is a study of the relation between Aristotle’s ethics and the crafts (or technai). My thesis is that Aristotle’s argument is at key points shaped by models proper to the crafts, this shaping being deeper than is generally acknowledged, and philosophically more problematic. Despite this, I conclude that the arguments I examine can, if revised, be upheld. The plan of the dissertation is as follows – Preface: The relation of my study to the extant secondary literature; Introduction: The (...) |
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Ancient Greek philosophical schools are said to share a common structure in their ethical theories which is characterized by a eudaimonistic teleology based in an understanding of human nature. At first glance, the skepticism of Sextus Empiricus as described in the Outlines of Pyrrhonism seems to fit into this model insofar as he describes the end of the skeptic as ataraxia, a common account of the expression of human happiness. I argue that this is a misunderstanding of Sextus’s philosophy for (...) No categories |
