De Anima III.7: tradução comentada com enfoque na psicologia moral de Aristóteles
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1981-9471.v20i1p172-201Keywords:
Psicologia Moral, De Anima, AristótelesAbstract
The entirety of Book III of Aristotle's De Anima is notoriously difficult, fraught with both philosophical and text-critical problems, and Chapter 7 is no exception. In addition, Chapter 7 has serious cohesion problems that have led editors and interpreters to question its unity, philosophical importance, and authorship. This paper, proceeding from a conjecture concerning the unity of Chapter 7, aims to discuss its philosophical and textual difficulties section by section, offering along with the discussion a translation into Brazilian Portuguese with an eye to Aristotle’s moral psychology presented there. I argue that the chapter must be treated with great caution as evidence for far-reaching interpretations of how Aristotle conceives phantasia in desire formation, but, despite its fragmentary nature, it has important and coherent philosophical achievements.
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