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Strictly speaking, Aristotle did not formulate a theory of the emotions, but we find indications of one in several of his treatise. Many studies about his conception of the emotions lose sight of the fact that the Aristotelian analysis of the passions or emotions in every theoretical context responds to a particular philosophical interest and to a specific problem, and they tend to reduce the Aristotelian concept of pathē to one of its components without taking into account the many approaches to the issue, which offer up a very rich and complex perspective of the passions or emotions. My purpose is to reconstruct the core of the Aristotelian theory of the emotions based in the different approaches to the issue that are dispersed throughout the corpus, and the analysis and discussion of the more current interpretive positions. I analize the different components of the emotions, particularly the physiological processes and sensations of pleasure and pain, as well as diverse states and cognitive processes, and I discuss the main interpretative positions, specially the extreme cognitive perspective of Martha Nusbaum. Lastly, I offer a moderate cognitive interpretation of the Aristotelian theory of the emotions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

El artículo presenta una introducción, en la cual el editor menciona algunos de los temas analizados a lo largo de la publicación, entre los cuales se encuentran la metafísica, la teoría de la acción, la psicología cognitiva y la ética.

In this paper I examine Aristotle's notion of practical necessity in the Nicomachean Ethics. This topic has received little attention in spite of its importance for the understanding of aristotelian practical syllogism. I focus my analysis on the controverted example of akratic reasoning in EN VII, 3, 1147a 26-30, in which Aristotle seems to showcase properties of practical reasoning connected with action. Nevertheless, as I hope to show, the aristotelian approach to this issue is insuficient to support an strong interpretation of practical necessity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]