Prazer, desejo e razão na ética aristotélica

Abstract

This paper proposes to examine the formation of human character according to its sources of pleasures, desires and reason for the study and analysis of the Aristotelian virtues theory. The proposed problem consists to understand in which mesure the irrational part of the soul headed by desires, contributes or not in the formation of human character and how it relates to the rational part of the soul, according to the Nicomachean Ethics. From this perspective, it highlights the importance of pleasurable and painful sensations in the distinction and identification of good and bad moral and seeks to understand the types of desires and pleasures of the body and of the soul and also, their role in the practice of moral and intellectual virtues.From this exhibition of the virtuous and vicious desires, it points the need to learn to wish correctly, as a necessary condition for the practical knowledge performane of the prudent and virtuous man. The study denouement tries to clarify the domain of the reason over the desires and the influence of the reason for the pursuit of the greater good, which the Aristotelian theory understands to be happiness.