Emotion, cognition and action:
emotions as a matter of knowledge and art in aristotelian philosophy
Keywords:
Aristotle. Emotions. cognition. Moral. Poetics.Abstract
The aim of this text is to present a characterization of emotions in Aristotelian philosophy, in order to explain how they become a matter of knowledge and art in poetry. Based on different works by Aristotle, especially De anima, Nicomachean Ethics, Rhetoric and Poetics, we explore those aspects of emotions that make explicit the continuities between the domains of psychology, morals and art. Such aspects concern the way in which they are constitutive of the human being, have a cognitive character that can be described and rationally apprehended, they are involved in the axiological universe of morals and the purpose of poetry. This can be understood most clearly in relation to the emotions of pity and fear in tragic poetry. In any case, the aspects through which Aristotle understands emotions give him the right conditions to conceive of them as a matter of knowledge and art.
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