Are Natural and Unnatural Appetites Equally Controllable? A Response to Jensen's “Is Continence Enough?”

Christian Bioethics 10 (2-3):177-188 (2004)
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This response challenges Jensen's analysis in no substantial way. Rather, it explains more fully some of the moral character categories that Aristotle provides. It argues that Aristotle understood there to be two forms of continence: the continence that enables us to control natural appetites and “some form” of continence directed towards unnatural appetites, generally engendered by some pathology or abuse.

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Nicomachean ethics.H. Aristotle & Rackham - 2014 - Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co.. Edited by C. D. C. Reeve.
Nicomachean Ethics.Terence Irwin & Aristotle of Stagira - 1999 - Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing.
Is Continence Enough?Steven Jensen - 2004 - Christian Bioethics 10 (2-3):161-176.

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