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Aristotle on the nature of ethos and ethismos
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dc.contributor.author | Hampson, Margaret | |
dc.contributor.editor | Dunham, Jeremy | |
dc.contributor.editor | Romdenh-Romluc, Komarine | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-02-29T00:39:04Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-02-29T00:39:04Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022-08-31 | |
dc.identifier | 281240007 | |
dc.identifier | 01f36cbb-a0cb-4b37-984b-0e9db9642ed5 | |
dc.identifier | 85141550079 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Hampson , M 2022 , Aristotle on the nature of ethos and ethismos . in J Dunham & K Romdenh-Romluc (eds) , Habit and the history of philosophy . Rewriting the history of philosophy , Routledge Taylor & Francis Group , Abingdon, Oxon , pp. 37-50 . https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315186436-5 | en |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9781138735644 | |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9781032305844 | |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9781315186436 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0001-5097-6405/work/118800405 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/29380 | |
dc.description.abstract | That character virtue is produced, according to Aristotle, through a process of moral habituation is a familiar feature of his ethics. And yet our feeling of familiarity with the notions of habit and habituation can engender a like feeling of familiarity with the process Aristotle describes, and encourage us to conceive of this process in an overly narrow way. In this chapter, I examine Aristotle’s notion of ethos and ethismos (habit, habituation) in the Nicomachean Ethics to better understand what Aristotle means to convey when he claims that character virtue ‘arises from habit’. I argue that to characterise habituation as ‘non-rational’ is misleading, particularly when this characterisation forecloses questions about what kinds of activity may be involved in the process of habituation, and what kind of states can be produced as a result. Habituation, I argue, is not characterised as a non-rational process, but a process that involves action and activity. This allows that the process of habituation may be understood in a relatively broad way and as potentially involving a range of activities which engage and develop a variety of psychological capacities. It also raises interesting questions about what a learner’s activity affords and how this contributes to her successful habituation. | |
dc.format.extent | 14 | |
dc.format.extent | 347018 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Routledge Taylor & Francis Group | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Habit and the history of philosophy | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Rewriting the history of philosophy | en |
dc.subject | BJ Ethics | en |
dc.subject | MCC | en |
dc.subject.lcc | BJ | en |
dc.title | Aristotle on the nature of ethos and ethismos | en |
dc.type | Book item | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Philosophy | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.4324/9781315186436-5 | |
dc.date.embargoedUntil | 2024-02-29 | |
dc.identifier.url | https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315186436 | en |
dc.identifier.url | https://discover.libraryhub.jisc.ac.uk/search?isn=9781138735644&rn=2 | en |
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