Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Free Will and the Rebel Angels in Medieval Philosophy

Free Will and the Rebel Angels in Medieval Philosophy Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/the-philosophical-review/article-pdf/131/2/222/1536587/222pasnau.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 12 June 2022 BOOK REVIEWS values—for he is acting in character, and with an implicit concern to be acting well; yet it is our role to ascribe courage to act and agent, not his. Gottlieb concedes that what the agent is “consciously thinking” or “focused on” may be only the salient features of his situation (85–86). Yet one then becomes uncertain of the practicality of the reasoning as she presents it. Is the whole syllogism operative, but only part of it within consciousness? Is the implied evaluation ‘This is brave’, which Bernard Williams found “one thought too many” (86n15), at work but underground? (She is aware that Aristotle lets obvious and standing truths be implicit.) One may prefer to escape the tram- mels of a single template. There are no final answers to such questions, and the texts derive much of their fertility from their ambiguity and even ambivalence. Gottlieb’s reflec- tions, which refreshingly take in many matters (as within music and poetry) that fall outside the scope of this review, should inspire the reader, by their own lack of finality, to enter imaginatively into Aristotle’s human world. Reference Barnes, Jonathan, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Philosophical Review Duke University Press

Free Will and the Rebel Angels in Medieval Philosophy

Pasnau, Robert
The Philosophical Review , Volume 131 (2) – Apr 1, 2022
Download PDF
5 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/duke-university-press/free-will-and-the-rebel-angels-in-medieval-philosophy-75qxi0q5bC

References

References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.

Copyright
© 2022 by Cornell University
ISSN
0031-8108
eISSN
1558-1470
DOI
10.1215/00318108-9554730
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/the-philosophical-review/article-pdf/131/2/222/1536587/222pasnau.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 12 June 2022 BOOK REVIEWS values—for he is acting in character, and with an implicit concern to be acting well; yet it is our role to ascribe courage to act and agent, not his. Gottlieb concedes that what the agent is “consciously thinking” or “focused on” may be only the salient features of his situation (85–86). Yet one then becomes uncertain of the practicality of the reasoning as she presents it. Is the whole syllogism operative, but only part of it within consciousness? Is the implied evaluation ‘This is brave’, which Bernard Williams found “one thought too many” (86n15), at work but underground? (She is aware that Aristotle lets obvious and standing truths be implicit.) One may prefer to escape the tram- mels of a single template. There are no final answers to such questions, and the texts derive much of their fertility from their ambiguity and even ambivalence. Gottlieb’s reflec- tions, which refreshingly take in many matters (as within music and poetry) that fall outside the scope of this review, should inspire the reader, by their own lack of finality, to enter imaginatively into Aristotle’s human world. Reference Barnes, Jonathan,

Journal

The Philosophical Review – Duke University Press

Published: Apr 1, 2022

There are no references for this article.