Love or Contemplation?

IF 0.1 0 PHILOSOPHY Studia Neoaristotelica Pub Date : 2019-07-22 DOI:10.5840/STUDNEOAR20191611
Vlastimil Vohánka
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This is an article in the philosophy of happiness — but one with an untypical focus. It clarifies the claim of the phenomenologist Dietrich von Hildebrand that (H) high happiness comes especially from loving others, and compares it with the apparently rival Aristotelian claim that (A) high happiness comes especially from contemplating God. The former claim is understood to be about felt love (love defined as an emotional rather than volitional state). Both claims are understood to be about felt happiness (happiness defined as an emotional state rather than a state of objective flourishing). The article argues that, in fact, the two claims are not rival but mutually consistent, since the beloved person can be God, and the contemplation can be a loving one. Both claims are also consistent with scientific evidence, although it is tangential and tentative. Moreover, both claims are plausible, since both are backed up by intuitive explanations of why they should be regarded as true. However, both are in need of a further philosophical or scientific research that could confirm them even more.
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爱还是沉思?
这是一篇关于幸福哲学的文章,但它的关注点并不典型。它澄清了现象学家迪特里希·冯·希尔德布兰德(Dietrich von Hildebrand)的主张,即(H)高幸福特别来自于爱他人,并将其与明显与之竞争的亚里士多德主张(A)高幸福特别来自于对上帝的沉思。前一种说法被认为是关于感受的爱(爱被定义为一种情感状态,而不是意志状态)。这两种说法都是关于感受幸福的(幸福被定义为一种情感状态,而不是一种客观繁荣的状态)。这篇文章认为,事实上,这两种说法并不是对立的,而是相互一致的,因为被爱的人可以是上帝,而沉思可以是一个有爱的人。这两种说法也与科学证据一致,尽管它是切题的和试探性的。此外,这两种说法都是合理的,因为它们都有对为什么它们应该被认为是正确的直觉解释的支持。然而,这两者都需要进一步的哲学或科学研究来进一步证实。
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Studia Neoaristotelica
Studia Neoaristotelica Arts and Humanities-Philosophy
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期刊介绍: Studia Neoaristotelica is a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal devoted to the promotion of Aristotelian philosophy broadly conceived, drawing on the rich legacy of the scholastic tradition and contemporary analytical metaphysics. Special emphasis is placed on the most advanced forms of scholastic thought that emerged during the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Our vision is to work toward a philosophical synthesis of analytic and scholastic methods and ideas, providing a contribution to Christian philosophy as well as wider secular thought. The journal is published by Editiones Scholasticae and the University of South Bohemia Faculty of Theology.
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