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Rational assent and self-reversion: a Neoplatonist response to the Stoics
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- This paper begins by arguing that, according to the Stoics, humans are accountable for assenting (and withholding assent) just because of the way in which the capacity for assent is reason-responsive. The paper then goes on to raise a question for this view. What is it about the nature of our capacity for assent that enables it to be reason-responsive in a way that other psychic capacities are not? For an answer to this question, the paper turns to Ps-Simplicius’ commentary on Aristotle’s De Anima. Ps-Simplicius draws on the Neoplatonist notion of self-reversion to explain what is distinctive about the rational capacity for assent. The paper spells out this account and argues that it provides a basis for explaining the distinctively reason-responsive nature of our capacity for assent.
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198778226.001.0001
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Volume:
- 50
- Pages:
- 237-288
- Series:
- Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy
- Publication date:
- 2016-08-30
- Acceptance date:
- 2015-11-07
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- 9780198778226
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- Copyright date:
- 2016
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- This is the accepted manuscript version of the chapter. The final version is available online from Oxford University Press at https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198778226.001.0001
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