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Good and Bad in Aristotle

In Pavlos Kontos (ed.), Evil in Aristotle. Cambridge University Press. pp. 17-31 (2018)

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  1. Becoming Bad: Aristotle on Vice and Moral Habituation.Rachel Barney - 2020 - In Victor Caston (ed.), Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume 57. Oxford University Press.
    Aristotle says little about moral badness [kakia], but his four central claims about it su????ce to entail a rich and plausible account. Badness is the disposition opposed to virtue, and so symmetrical with it in various ways; it is acquired by habituation; it is unlike akrasia in that the bad person’s reason endorses his wrong actions; and this endorsement involves the exercise of a corrupted reason. The activity of corrupted reason must be a kind of (as we now say) motivated (...)
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  • Aristotle and the Origins of Evil.Jozef Müller - 2020 - Phronesis: A Journal for Ancient Philosophy 65 (2):179-223.
    The paper addresses the following question: why do human beings, on Aristotle’s view, have an innate tendency to badness, that is, to developing desires that go beyond, and often against, their natural needs? Given Aristotle’s teleological assumptions (including the thesis that nature does nothing in vain), such tendency should not be present. I argue that the culprit is to be found in the workings of rationality. In particular, it is the presence of theoretical reason that necessitates the limitless nature of (...)
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  • Evil in Aristotle by Pavlos Kontos. [REVIEW]Samuel Baker - 2019 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 57 (2):342-343.
    This is the first volume devoted to Aristotle's thoughts on evil or badness. The work calls attention to several relatively neglected areas of scholarship, and the contributions give any reader grounds for thinking that Aristotle has thoughts about to kakon that are sophisticated and worthy of deep philosophical engagement. [...].
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