Aristotle on emotions in law and politics. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Liesbeth Huppes-Cluysenaer, Nuno M.M.S. Coelho, editors.
• Editors: Huppes-Cluysenaer, E. A, 1947-; Coelho, Nuno M. M. S
• Contents: Intro; Preface; Contents; Contributors; Part I: Introduction; Chapter 1: The Debate About Emotion in Law and Politics; 1.1 Theme of the Book; 1.2 Practice and Theory; 1.3 Multidisciplinarity; 1.4 Cognition, Moral Agency and Legitimation; 1.4.1 Cognition; 1.4.2 Moral Agency; 1.4.3 Legitimation; References; Chapter 2: Judicial Emotion as Vice or Virtue: Perspectives Both Ancient and New; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Aristotelian Thought Within Law and Emotion Scholarship; 2.2.1 Some Background on Law and Emotion; 2.2.2 AristotleÂś Theory of the Emotions and Contemporary Appraisal Theory. 2.3 Emotion as a Judicial Virtue2.3.1 The Persistent Cultural Script of Judicial Dispassion; 2.3.2 Judicial Emotion Through the Lens of Aristotelian Virtue: The Case of Anger; 2.3.2.1 Seneca and Aristotle on Anger; 2.3.2.2 Judicial Anger Through an Aristotelian Lens; 2.4 Conclusion; References; Cases; Chapter 3: Dispassionate Judges Encountering Hotheaded Aristotelians; 3.1 An Amateurish Case for the Ideal of Dispassionate Judges; 3.2 The Emotional Approach in Legal Studies; 3.3 Judges Getting Angry; 3.4 Some Quick and Dirty Comments; 3.5 How Aristotle Comes In. 3.6 Aristotle and Angry Judges: A Mismatch?3.7 Aristotelian Emotions and Virtue Theory; 3.8 Aristotle and the Alleged Rationality of Emotions; 3.9 Angry Judges in AristotleÂś Rhetoric; 3.10 Conclusion; References; Part II: Cognition; Chapter 4: Emotion and Rationality in AristotleÂś Model: From Anthropology to Politics; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 A Circular Anthropology; 4.3 Analysis of Some Key-Concepts; 4.3.1 Sensation (Aisthesis): A Complex Structure; 4.3.2 Emotion (Pathos): Linguistic Dimension; 4.3.3 Pity (Eleos) and Fear (Phobos); 4.3.3.1 Intermezzo; 4.3.4 Desire (Orexis). 4.3.5 Impulse (Thumos)4.4 A Recap and Some Remarks; 4.5 Some Concluding Remarks About the Feasibility of AristotleÂś Theory in View of a Post-Cartesian Model of Human Identity; References; Chapter 5: Logoi enuloi. AristotleÂś Contribution to the Contemporary Debate on Emotions and Decision-Making; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Organism as Integrated Unity; 5.3 Emotion and Feeling; 5.4 The ``Crown JewelÂÁ̂;́ 5.5 The Need of Forms: From Damasio to Aristotle; 5.6 Emotions as logoi enuloi; 5.7 Emotion as Mediation; 5.8 Emotion and Decision-Making. 5.9 Conclusion: Managing Emotion in Juridical ExperienceReferences; Chapter 6: AristotleÂś Functionalism and the Rise of Nominalism in Law and Politics: Law, Emotion and Language; 6.1 Introduction: Two Premises; 6.2 Functionalism; 6.3 Practical Truth and Functionalism in Law and Politics; 6.3.1 Practical Truth; 6.3.2 Functionalism in Law and Politics; 6.4 Function Argument in Aquinas ́and OckhamÂś Political Writings; 6.4.1 Aquinas ́De regimine principum; 6.4.2 OckhamÂś Breviloquium de principatu tyrannico; 6.5 Conclusion; References.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (455 pages)
• Subjects: 185; Emotions (Philosophy); Justice (Philosophy); PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Ancient & Classical; Emotions (Philosophy); Justice (Philosophy); Law; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History; Legal History; Law and Psychology; Political Theory; Philosophy of Law; Electronic books; Electronic book
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319667034; 3319667033
• Related ISBNs: 9783319667027; 3319667025
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Print version record.
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