Two Aspects of Moral Habituation in Aristotle’s Practical Science
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Siyi Chen
Abstract
Through a detailed reconstruction of the process of moral habituation, which includes both a desiderative and an intellectual aspect, I demonstrate in this essay that Aristotelian practical science does not make people practically wise on a ground and personal level, but teaches moral educators how to produce basically good men in and through practice. In particular, the formation of the correct wish for happiness is the natural culmination of desiderative habituation, and intellectual habituation that develops personal practical wisdom is mainly a process of moral apprenticeship under senior statesmen. My analyses of the aspects of moral habituation should reveal that even in his practical science, that is, in a kind of theory pursued for the sake of practice, Aristotle still maintains the clear distinction between theoretical and practical intelligence and shows deep insights into the peculiarity of the latter.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Articles
- Titelseiten
- The Lives of Pythagoras: A Proposal for Reading Pythagorean Metempsychosis
- Suicide in the Phaedo
- Plato’s Recollection Argument in the Philebus
- Two Aspects of Moral Habituation in Aristotle’s Practical Science
- Reviews
- Diana Quarantotto, L’universo senza spazio. Aristotele e la teoria del luogo, Bibliopolis, Naples, 2017, 290 p., ISBN 978-8870886481, € 29.75
- Attila Németh, Epicurus on the Self, Routledge, London-New York, 2017, 205 p., ISBN 978-1-138-63385-8 [hbk], £ 105
- Sylvain Delcomminette, Pieter d’Hoine, Marc-Antoine Gavray (eds.), Ancient Readings of Plato’s Phaedo. Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2015, viii+364 p.; ISBN 978-90-0428217-9, € 126.
