Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics book 3 | Prohairesis, or Moral Choice | Philosophy Core Concepts
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This video focuses on Aristotle's work, the Nicomachean Ethics, and discusses his treatment of a key ethical matter, moral or deliberative choice (prohairesis), discussed in book 3.
Choice is intimately connected with character, virtues and vices, and what kind of a person one turns out to be. For Aristotle, it also involves deliberation about means for ends, and provides an important junction connecting a person's affective or desirous side and a person's rational or intellectual side. Choice is also a sub-section of the category of the "voluntary" for Aristotle, so it bears important implications for the distinction between the voluntary and the involuntary.
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it cannot just be wish that gives us our ends, as wish can wish for the impossible. There has to be deliberation regarding ends as well, and this would have to come before the deliberation of choosing and acting upon means. Here is another "absence of contradiction" or simplicity. One has no conflict between the execution of means and spontaneous, contradictory desires ( or as Nietzsche put so colorfully, "barking dogs in ones basement".)
+Mark Trumble It isn't just wish that gives us our ends. But, for Aristotle, among the other things that give us, or orient us towards our ends, it's not deliberation -- at least if we go by the NE 3 discussion
Is prohairesis an earlier formulation of existentialism? Sartre believed that our choices are important in defining the meaning of our existence. Is the difference in how events are pecieved, ie the rationality of the dichotomy of control vs the phenomenology of existentialism?
I'd avoid trying to generalize about the very broad movement that existentialism is by using just Sartre
@@GregoryBSadler thanks for the correction Gregory and thanks for all your brilliant work. I guess i should have said sartre's existentialism so. I am seeing a similarity though in prohairesis and what he said about making ourselves through our choices.
@@trevorbissett1405 The best you can say is that many thinkers throughout time view our capacity of choice as reflexive and and determinative of who and how we are. Epictetus would be one of them. So would Cicero. So would Augustine. So would. . . . all the way down to and past Sartre
If desire is for the end, and choice is concerned with how to achieve the desired end, it would be wrong to say that I chose something, but would instead say I chose how I got it? Would that be correct? Thanks for video
No, you can be choosing that something as a means to something else, like happiness.
choices.. aristotle knew them well..
Indeed - and there's also the choices about choices. . .