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""Preface ""; ""References ""; ""List Of Contributors ""; ""1. An Introduction To Aspasius ""; ""2. Aspasian Lemmatology ""; ""3. Aspasius On Eudaimonia ""; ""4. Aspasius On Emotion ""; ""5. Il Volontario E La Scelta In Aspasio ""; ""6. Aspasius On Perfect And Imperfect Virtues ""; ""7. Aspasius On Akrasia ""; ""8. Amicizia E Â"Focal MeaningÂ" ""; ""Bibliography On Aspasius ""; ""Index Of Passages Cited ""; ""General Index ""

Affectivity – especially the emotions – are proved to be a key-point of ethical formation. This book aims at clarifying which thesis the neo-aristotelian Virtue Ethics hold about emotion education, by integrating philosophy of education, philosophy of emotions and moral epistemology. Virtue Ethics, compared to deontology and utilitarianism-consequentialism, offers the more appropriate framework to conceive the relations between education, emotions and ethics. The volume discusses cognitive-evaluative theories of emotions and address the anti-rationalist challenge, based on empirical evidence about how emotions impact on moral judgments. Anti-rationalism, it is argued, is incompatible with the purpose of shaping the emotions looking at our best moral reasons. Then, two Aristotelian educational theses are put forward: all the emotional dispositions – both 'positive' and 'negative' – should be cultivated, and all the emotional dispositions admit an appropriate moral form.