The philosophy of Aristotle
Choice, then, seems to be identical with the voluntary, though it is not the same, since the latter is wider; for both children and the other animals partake in it, but not in choice, and things done suddenly are thought to be voluntary, but not chosen. Continue reading “What choice is and how it stands with respect to the voluntary”
It remains, then, to inquire the way in which the soul moves the body, and what is the origin of the animal’s motion. For the ensouled, save the motion of the universe, are responsible for the motion of the rest, providing not to move by each other through bumping against each other. This is why all their movements have a limit; and so do the motions of the ensouled. For all animals are both movers and being moved for the sake of something, so that this is the limit of all their motion: the for-the-sake-of-something. Continue reading “How the soul moves the body, and what is the origin of the animal’s motion”
Choice is not just a preference or selection but a selection out of a deliberative desire. I call it deliberative when deliberation is the beginning and cause of the desire, and one desires because of the deliberation; while the deliberation is consideration and circumspection of a purpose. Continue reading “The difference between choice and wish”
