Passions and Proportions: Aristotle
Keywords:
passions, proportion, fair way, practical calculationAbstract
In the Corpus aristotelicum there are passages in which the part of the human soul called alogon, which is also the seat of the passions, is presented as opposite to a kind of lógos called logistikón. This polarity of álogon-logistiké, or alogon-logismos, predates Aristotle, who took it over for his own needs. One sense of this polarity prior to Aristotle comes from pre-Eudoxian mathematics, which attempts to understand the alogon as a kind of proportional calculation centered on the “Euclidian algorithm”. Echoes of such a conception can be found in the Nicomachean Ethics, in the “practical calculation” of the wise man.
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