Aristotle

Book section

Authors: Coope, U

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Host title: A Companion to the Philosophy of Action
• Pages: 439-446
• Publication date: 2010-07-29
• DOI: 10.1002/9781444323528.ch54
• ISBN: 9781405187350
• Keywords: Voluntariness, intentionality, responsibility-Aristotle's account of voluntariness, an account of responsibility; Aristotle's account of voluntary-found at Nicomachean Ethics III 1 and 5 and V 8, and at Eudemian Ethics II 6-9; Aristotle, 'clear-eyed akrasia' is possible-the akratic, fully aware at the time of action; Voluntariness and ignorance-way in which an action may fail to be voluntary, if the agent suffers from a kind of ignorance; Aristotle, actions focusing on-distinctively human kind of purposive action; Forced actions, actions to which the agent contributes nothing; Aristotle, defining choice as what is determined by deliberation; Choice (proairesis)-Aristotle's term proairesis, translated as 'choice,' 'reasoned choice,'; Akratic action and choice