Affiliation:
1. Department of Philosophy, Stockholm Universityse–10691 StockholmSweden
Abstract
Aristotle invokes a specifically human desire, namely wish (boulēsis), to provide a teleological explanation of the pursuit of the specifically human good in terms of virtuous activity. Wish is a basic, unreasoned desire which, independently of other desires, or evaluative attitudes, motivates the pursuit of the human good. Even a person who pursues what she mistakenly believes to be good is motivated by wish for what in fact is good, although she is oblivious of it.
Subject
History and Philosophy of Science,Philosophy,History
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