Prohairesis

Prohairesis (Greek προαίρεσις, choice, decision ) is a Greek phrase and a philosophical term from the Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle.

Aristotle describes in his Nicomachean Ethics προαίρεσις ( prohairesis / decision) as an essential concept of action, because only as an act that can be described, which was prompted by a decision.

In pursuit of ethics, which is based on Aristotle, according to Mark Riedenuer prohairesis is " law enforcement unit of struts and reason and in response to the seemingly good."

In the philosophical debate about the concepts and judgments Want to find a variety of applications and meanings of prohairesis, where different interpretations of the Nicomachean Ethics are based. So Hannah Arendt prohairesis interpreted as "choice in the sense of preference for one alternative in between - rather than another". Hermann Vetter translates these arend Chechen interpretation into German with the choice in the sense of preferring one of several ways.

Arendt uses this term in a correspondence with Martin Heidegger, where she writes

" I left when Kant will issue a provisional quite aside; in contrast to thought and judgment he seemed to me as rather unproductive. Now I 'll have to think this all over again to me. I 've assumed that the ancient Greeks knew neither the will nor the problem of freedom ( as a problem ). So I 'm starting the actual discussion, although with Aristotle ( prohairesis, προαίρεσις ), but just to show how represent certain phenomena, if the will is unknown as an independent fortune, and then go from Paul, Epictetus, Augustine, Thomas Duns Scotus. "