(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2023-12-11) Salas Matienzo, Mayra
Increasingly vigorous research into the nature of consciousness contrasts with a loss of interest in the notion of life or in the conceptual delimitation of a living organism. They also contrast, either to refute or adhere to, with the assumption of a finished rational and mathematical model of the world reflected in the predominance of measurable properties over more sensible qualities of things. The treatment of pleasure and consciousness in Aristote and Husserl seems to restore and subvert, respectively, relegated and not so relegated models: in the first case, the notion of life and activity; in the second, the scheme of a neutral theoretical reason.
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2023-12-11) Cueto, Fernanda
Acrasia was the word used in Ancient Greece to refer to the phenomenon that occurs when a person is not able to act according to what her moral reason dictates. This article seeks to explain this phenomenon from an Aristotelian perspective. The thesis proposed is that, according to Aristotle, in order to carry out a virtuous action, knowledge is not enough, but one must also desire virtue. The acratic person is the one who, in spite of knowing what virtue consists of, does not feel pleasure in acting virtuously, because she has not cultivated the habit of acting according to her reason.