Platone Plato and the "deliberate desire"

Intelectualism and teleology of desire in Plato's Ethics

Authors

  • Barbara Botter Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES), Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brasil, barbarabotter@gmail.com.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5216/phi.v26i1.67152

Abstract

Traditionally there is a significant difference beetween the doctrine of action attributed to Socrates and that attributed to Plato and it was established for the first time by Aristotle. According to the philosopher, Socrates defends an intellectualistic doctrine of human action, while Plato, from the Republic, distinguishes the rational from the irrational part of the soul, this one with passionate forces that influence the psychic mouvement. Through an analysis of the ethical doctrine in the Protagoras, we defend the idea that intellectualism entirely pervades Plato’s moral theory; but that within it, reason and desire contribute to a joint process.

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Author Biography

Barbara Botter, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES), Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brasil, barbarabotter@gmail.com.

Prof.a no Departamento de Filosofia da PUC-RJ. Áreas: filosofia antiga, teoria do conhecimento, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: Aristóteles, fisica e filosofia da natureza, ontologia e ética.

Published

2021-11-19

How to Cite

BOTTER, B. Platone Plato and the "deliberate desire": Intelectualism and teleology of desire in Plato’s Ethics. Philósophos a journal of philosophy, Goiânia, v. 26, n. 1, 2021. DOI: 10.5216/phi.v26i1.67152. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/philosophos/article/view/67152. Acesso em: 3 jul. 2024.