Price, Anthony W. (2016) Choice and action in Aristotle. Phronesis 61 (4), pp. 435-462. ISSN 0031-8868.
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Abstract
There is a current debate about the grammar of intention: do I intend to φ (whose content is an act), or that I φ (whose content is quasi-propositional)? The equivalent question in Aristotle relates especially to choice (prohairesis). I argue that, in the context of practical reasoning, choice, as also wish (boulēsis), has as its object an act. I then explore the role that this plays within his account of the relation of thought to action. In particular, I discuss the relation of deliberation to the practical syllogism, and the thesis that the conclusion of the second is an action.
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | wish, Aristotle, practical syllogism, choice, deliberation |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Historical Studies |
| Depositing User: | Professor A. W. Price |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Sep 2016 13:10 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 17:23 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/15145 |
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