Title

On the Antecedents of Aristotle's Bipartite Psychology

Authors

William W. Fortenbaugh, Rutgers University - New Brunswick/PiscatawayFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-1969

Abstract

This paper will be concerned with the antecedents of Aristotle's bipartite or moral psychology. It will consider two common theses: 1) Aristotle's bipartite psychology is in origin a popular psychology already present (if not clearly formulated) in Euripides' Medea; 2) Aristotle's bipartite psychology developed out of tripartition by collapsing together the two lower elements of tripartition. Roughly, I shall be affirming the first and rejecting the second thesis. In both cases I hope to develop and make more precise the origins of Aristotle's bipartite psychology.

Notes

William W. Fortenbaugh presented “On the Antecedents of Aristotle’s Bipartite Psychology” to the Society at its meeting with the American Philological Association in San Francisco in 1969. A revised version was published in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 2.3 (autumn 1970) and reprinted in John P. Anton & Anthony Preus, eds.1983. Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy, vol. 2. State University of New York Press, 303-320. f

For information on the author, see Wikipedia “William Wall Fortenbaugh” (in German)

Recommended Citation

Fortenbaugh, William W., "On the Antecedents of Aristotle's Bipartite Psychology" (1969). The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter. 187.
https://orb.binghamton.edu/sagp/187