Taste, touch, and temperance in Nicomachean ethics 3.10

Classical Quarterly

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 135-140

  Sisko, John E ^a  

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EID: 62949244235     PISSN: 00098388     EISSN: 14716844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cq/53.1.135     Document Type: Review

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1. It is widely agreed that certain of Aristotle's claims regarding perception in Eth. Nic. 3.10 are best understood in light of his theory of perception, which is set out in De An. and elaborated in Sens., Part. An., and Hist. An. See J. Stewart, Notes on the Nicomachean Ethics 1 (Oxford, 1892), 309-11
2. J. Urmson, Aristotle's Ethics (Oxford, 1988), 67-70
3. C. Young, 'Aristotle on temperance', Philosophical Review 97 (1988), 521-42, at 527-8
4. C. Freeland, 'Aristotle on the sense of touch' in M. Nussbaum and A. Rorty (edd.), Essays on Aristotle's De Anima (Oxford, 1992), 227-48, at 238-41
5. and T. K. Johansen, Aristotle on the Sense-Organs (Cambridge, 1998), 221-2. Young goes farther than others by attempting to provide a comprehensive account of the theoretical underpinnings of the link. His account has been highly influential. Thus, I shall refer to it as the standard contemporary view
6. See M. Nussbaum, 'Non-relative virtues: an Aristotelian approach', Midwest Studies in Philosophy 13 (1988), 32-53
7. While his treatment of the human is in complete harmony with his own psychological theory, Aristotle makes no explicit appeal to that theory within the argument. On the role of dialectic in the argument, see J. Cooper, Reason and Human Good in Aristotle (Cambridge, MA, 1975), 69-70
8. T. Roche, 'On the alleged metaphysical foundation of Aristotle's Ethics', Ancient Philosophy 8 (1988), 49-62
9. and R. Bolton, 'The objectivity of ethics', in J. Anton and A. Preus (edd.), Aristotle's Ethics: Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy 4 (1991), 7-28
10. Regarding vascular networks, see Hist. An. 3.4a15-19, Part. An. 3.4, 665b12-15, and 3.5, 667b17-20