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MENTAL CONFLICT

Mental conflict is the condition of a divided mind consciously torn

between contrary desires or beliefs. For Greek philosophers it is a

puzzle provocative of theory; they accommodate it differently within

different structurings of the mind’s operations.

Socrates focuses all a man’s desires upon a single goal taken to

constitute the human good. This permits vacillation between varying

conceptions of the end or devisings of the means, and consequent

regret; but judgement, or misjudgement, is always in control. Plato

comes instead to find a disunity in desire, which means that reason may

fail to be master within its own house. Unity is to be worked for in the

convergence of all desires through the persuasions of reason.

Aristotle assents to rather the same view but supposes that, when

reason fails to win out in action, it also loses out in judgement, ceasing

to perceive the demands of the situation. Plato’s practical reason is a

child of heaven, whose voice is not stilled by being unheeded, while

Aristotle’s is a creature of earth, emergent out of desire and eclipsed by

desires in effective revolt.

The Stoics return to a Socratic insistence that my decision is the

decision of my reason. Emotion may still intrude, but as a perversion of

reason. Thus they can maintain that the person remains single as the

subject of decision, the agent of action, and the bearer of responsibility.

This book is the first detailed analysis of the treatment of mental

conflict within Greek philosophy. It will be important reading for all

students and teachers of ancient and moral philosophy.

A.W.Price is Reader in Philosophy at the University of York. In

1989/ 90 he was a Junior Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies,

Washington DC. He has taught at Wadham College Oxford, the

University of Hong Kong, Brown University and the Graduate School of

the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He is the author of Love and

Friendship in Plato and Aristotle (1989).

ISSUES IN ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY

General editor: Malcolm Schofield

GOD AND GREEK PHILOSOPHY

L.P.Gerson

ANCIENT CONCEPTS OF PHILOSOPHY

William Jordan

LANGUAGE, THOUGHT AND FALSEHOOD

Nicholas Denyer

MENTAL CONFLICT

A.W.Price

London and New York

First published 1995

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Mental conflict/A.W.Price

p. cm.—(Issues in ancient philosophy)

Includes bibliographical references (p.) and indexes.

1. Philosophy of mind. 2. Philosophy, Ancient.

I. Title. II. Series.

B105.M55P75 1994

128’.2’0938-dc20 94–3935

ISBN 0-203-98312-2 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0-415-04151-1 (hbk)

ISBN 0-415-11557-4 (pbk)

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