Formazione etica ed emozioni : : prospettive di virtue ethics neo-aristotelica / / Ariele Niccoli.

• Superior document: Premio Ricerca Città di Firenze ; 71
• VerfasserIn: Niccoli, Ariele,
• Place / Publishing House: Firenze : : Firenze University Press,, 2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Premio Ricerca Città di Firenze ; 71.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (152 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).

Affectivity – especially the emotions – are proved to be a key-point of ethical formation. This book aims at clarifying which thesis the neo-aristotelian Virtue Ethics hold about emotion education, by integrating philosophy of education, philosophy of emotions and moral epistemology. Virtue Ethics, compared to deontology and utilitarianism-consequentialism, offers the more appropriate framework to conceive the relations between education, emotions and ethics. The volume discusses cognitive-evaluative theories of emotions and address the anti-rationalist challenge, based on empirical evidence about how emotions impact on moral judgments. Anti-rationalism, it is argued, is incompatible with the purpose of shaping the emotions looking at our best moral reasons. Then, two Aristotelian educational theses are put forward: all the emotional dispositions – both ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ – should be cultivated, and all the emotional dispositions admit an appropriate moral form.