Reason, will and emotion: defending the Greek tradition against triune consciousness

Does twentieth-century phenomenology show that the Greek tradition was wrong about the intentionality of the emotions, their place in the mind, and their relevance for ethics? .Reason, Emotion, and Will. argues that, contrary to somecontemporary accounts of mind and consciousness, the views of Levinas, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Ricoeur, and others, are not in conflict with the main lines of Greek and medieval thought in this regard. In addition, the book defendsa traditional faculty-based account of the mind in comparison with a recent model based on the direct analysis of consciousness and conscious operations inthe writings of Bernard Lonergan. The heart of the study consists of an account of the place of affectivity, including the passions and the higher emotionsknown as desires of reason or affections of the will, in the philosophy of Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Augustine, and especially Thomas Aquinas. INDICE: Acknowledgements .List of Abbreviations .Introduction .Affection in Triune Consciousness .Ricoeur in Search of a Philosophy of the 'Heart' .Cognition and Volition, or Reason and Will.Faculties or Powers of the Mind.Affectivity and Values: Two Modern Views.Reason and Desire from Socrates to the Stoics.Augustine: 'Love transformed into Will' .Thomas Aquinas: The Primacy of Intellectual Love.The Unravelling of Triune Consciousness .Bibliography.Notes .Index

• ISBN: 978-1-1370-3096-2
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 280
• Fecha Publicación: 28/09/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido