Aristotle on Politics and Emotions

Nuno Manuel Morgadinho dos Santos Coelho, Kelly de Souza Barbosa

Abstract


The passages where the emotion comes to the fore in policy reveals the importance of pathos in the Aristotelian political thought. Passions are central to understanding the challenge of institution, conservation and development of polis, permanently at risk of dissolution. To politics, as practical knowledge, does not matter only knowing the good, but making it real. Whereas the good thing is that which saves, the first concern of political philosophy is to know what contributes to safeguard the polis, and what threatens and destroys it. This papers aims at the role of emotions in this processes.


Keywords


Aristotle; Politics; Emotions; Pathos

References


ARISTOTLE. Metaphysics. Trad. Hugh Tredennick. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989.

__________ (a). Nicomachean Ethics. Trad. H. Rackham. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1934.

__________ (b). Politics. Trad. H. Rackham. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1944.

__________ (c). Topics. Books I and VIII. With excerpts from related texts. Trad. Robin Smith. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2003.

__________ (d). Eudemian Ethics. Trad. H. Rackham. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981.




DOI: https://doi.org/10.26668/IndexLawJournals/2525-9660/2016.v2i1.1110

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