This thinker stated that propeteia and astheneia, or impetuosity and weakness, were forms of akrasia, or incontinence. He drew various analogies between physical health and eudaimonia. Theophrastus succeeded this thinker in the Peripatetic school. This thinker claimed that the role of tragedy was to cleanse the mind of pity
This thinker stated that propeteia and astheneia, or impetuosity and weakness, were forms of akrasia, or incontinence. He drew various analogies between physical health and eudaimonia. Theophrastus succeeded this thinker in the Peripatetic school. This thinker claimed that the role of tragedy was to cleanse the mind of pity and terror and expounded on the ideas of mimesis and catharsis in his Poetics. For 10 points, name this Greek author of the Nichomachean Ethics, a student of Plato and a teacher of Alexander the Great.
This thinker stated that propeteia and astheneia, or impetuosity and weakness, were forms of akrasia, or incontinence.
Aristotle [or Aristoteles]