Are Natural and Unnatural Appetites Equally Controllable? A Response to Jensen's “Is Continence Enough?”

This response challenges Jensen's analysis in no substantial way. Rather, it explains more fully some of the moral character categories that Aristotle provides. It argues that Aristotle understood there to be two forms of continence: the continence that enables us to control natural appetites a...

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Main Author: Smith, Janet E. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2004
In: Christian bioethics
Year: 2004, Volume: 10, Issue: 2/3, Pages: 177-188
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Summary:This response challenges Jensen's analysis in no substantial way. Rather, it explains more fully some of the moral character categories that Aristotle provides. It argues that Aristotle understood there to be two forms of continence: the continence that enables us to control natural appetites and “some form” of continence directed towards unnatural appetites, generally engendered by some pathology or abuse.
ISSN:1744-4195
Contains:Enthalten in: Christian bioethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/13803600490898056