PHILOS 2YY3 Chapter Notes - Chapter Virtue Ethics: Virtue Ethics, Desiderative Mood, Whist
3 Apr 2018
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Reading 19 - - hursthouse virtue and emotion . She proposes and defends a conception of how, within the framework of a virtue ethics, practical wisdom comports with emotions. These three claims allow us to understand that emotions possess an intrinsic value in certain circumstances rather than just instrumental value for some other intrinsic value. H: we need to find a balance between the two extremes: those of which are (1) emotions do not involve any rationality and (2) emotions involve too much rationality. H: aristotle"s division of the parts of the soul into rational and non-rational can lead us to a possible answer. Aristotle"s two types of soul: the nutritive part. Desiderative part participates in reason whilst the nutritive soul does not. Listens to / obeys the reasoning part of us. Emotions involve ideas or images (thoughts . perceptions) of good and evil: good and evil being the formal objects of pursuit and avoidance.
