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

• Superior document: Premio Ricerca "Città di Firenze"
• VerfasserIn: Niccoli, Ariele,
• Place / Publishing House: Florence : : Firenze University Press,, 2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: Italian
• Series: Premio Ricerca "Città di Firenze".
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (150 pages).

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.