Aristotle's Practical Side: On His Psychology, Ethics, Politics And Rhetoric (Philosophia Antiqua)

495 Pages·2006·5.07 MB·English

by  William W. Fortenbaugh

ARISTOTLE’S PRACTICAL SIDE
PHILOSOPHIA ANTIQUA
A SERIES OF STUDIES
ON ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY
PREVIOUS EDITORS
† †
J.H. WASZINK , W.J. VERDENIUS , J.C.M. VAN WINDEN
EDITED BY
K.A. ALGRA, F.A.J. DE HAAS
J. MANSFELD, D.T. RUNIA
VOLUME CI
W.W. FORTENBAUGH
ARISTOTLE’S PRACTICAL SIDE
ARISTOTLE’S PRACTICAL SIDE
ON HIS PSYCHOLOGY, ETHICS,
POLITICS AND RHETORIC
BY
WILLIAM W. FORTENBAUGH
BRILL
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2006
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CONTENTS
Preface ................................................................ ix
Acknowledgements ................................................... xi
Introduction........................................................... 1
i psychology
.
1. Aristotle’sRhetoric onEmotions.................................. 9
2. ANoteonAspasius,InEN 44.20–21............................ 39
3. OntheAntecedentsofAristotle’sBipartitePsychology ........ 43
4. TheAccountoftheSoulinNicomachean Ethics 1.13 ............. 61
5. BipartitionoftheSoulinNicomacheanEthics 1.7and1.13 ....... 65
6. AristotleandTheophrastusontheEmotions................... 69
ii ethics
.
7. Aristotle:EmotionandMoralVirtue............................ 107
8. AristotleandtheQuestionableMean-Dispositions............. 131
9. Aristotle:Animals,EmotionandMoralVirtue................. 159
10. Aristotle’sDistinctionbetweenMoralVirtue andPractical
Wisdom ........................................................... 189
11. Τ(cid:3)πρ(cid:6)ςτ(cid:6)τ(cid:9)λ(cid:11)ςandSyllogisticVocabularyinAristotle’s
Ethics .............................................................. 199
12. Aristotle’sAnalysisofFriendship:Function,Analogy,
ResemblanceandFocalMeaning................................ 211
13. Menander’sPerikeiromene:Misfortune,Vehemenceand
Polemon........................................................... 223
iii politics
.
14. AristotleonSlavesandWomen.................................. 241
15. Aristotles’sNaturalSlave......................................... 249
16. AristotleonPriorandPosterior,CorrectandMistaken
Constitutions...................................................... 265
viii contents
iv rhetoric
.
17. AristotleonPersuasionthroughCharacter ..................... 281
18. Aristotle’sAccountsofPersuasionthroughCharacter.......... 317
19. Benevolentiamconciliare andanimospermovere:SomeRemarks on
Cicero’sDeoratore 2.178–216...................................... 339
20. Aristotle’sPlatonicAttitudetowardDelivery ................... 353
21. WhatWasIncludedinaPeripateticTreatise Περ(cid:14)λ(cid:9)(cid:15)εως?..... 367
22. PersuasionthroughCharacterandtheCompositionof
Aristotle’sRhetoric................................................. 383
23. OntheCompositionofAristotle’sRhetoric:Arguing the
Issue,EmotionalAppeal,PersuasionthroughCharacter,
andCharactersTiedtoAgeandFortune....................... 389
24. CiceroasaReporterofAristotelianandTheophrastean
RhetoricalDoctrine.............................................. 413
v indices
.
1. AncientSources .................................................. 443
2. Subjects........................................................... 473
PREFACE
The articles brought together in this volume are all concerned in one
wayoranotherwithAristotle’spracticalside,i.e.,hismoralpsychology,
his ethical and political thought, and his writings on rhetorical persua-
sion.Thearticlesnumbertwenty-fourandwerewrittenovermorethan
four decades. Each has benefited from the helpful criticism of some
colleague, interested scholar or anonymous referee. I cannot begin to
thank all these individuals by name; indeed, in the case of an anony-
mous referee, the identity of the individual remains unknown. But I
can say up front, that without considerable help by many different per-
sons, my work would never have developed as it has. I am grateful and
hope that in the following years, however many they may be, I can
make a return by assisting younger colleagues and scholars working on
Peripatetic subjects.
Certain persons should, however, be picked out for special recogni-
tion. I begin by naming Glenn Morrow, who was my dissertation advi-
sor at the University of Pennsylvania. He deepened my understanding
ofAristotleandtookaninterestinmyworkeven afterIhadcompleted
my doctoral studies and taken a position at Douglass College, Rutgers
University. During my early years at Douglass, two philosophers were
especially supportive. One was Dick Henson,who was chairman of the
Department of Philosophy, and the other was William Alston, who dis-
cussed with me his work on emotion and behavioral regularities. These
discussions had a direct influence on more than one article appearing
in this volume. Another philosopher deserving recognition is Richard
Sorabji. His interest in my early work and his generous comments and
thoughtful suggestions over more than three decades have been invalu-
able.Amongphilologists,IwouldliketomentionHerwigGörgemanns,
who was my Betreuer in Heidelberg and whose work on Plato’s Laws
stimulated my thinking about Aristotle’s doctrine of moral virtue. Also
to be named is Eckart Schütrumpf, whose contributions were more
indirect but nevertheless of considerable help during the years that I
wasworkingonAristotle’sRhetoric.
Several funding agencies and research centers have provided assis-
tance at opportune moments. They are The Center for Hellenic Stud-
ies, The American Council of Learned Societies, The Alexander von