The brute within [electronic resource] : appetitive desire in Plato and Aristotle / Hendrik Lorenz.
Series: Oxford philosophical monographsPublication details: Oxford : Clarendon, 2006.Description: 1 online resource (229 p.)ISBN:- 0199290636
- 128.3 22
- B395

Lorenz presents a comprehensive study of Plato's and Aristotle's conceptions of non-rational desire. They see this as something that humans share with animals, and which aims primarily at the pleasures of food, drink, and sex.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.