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Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Aristotle, Prichard, and Grice on 'willing'

by JLS
for the GC

--- Cited by Doyle, "Aristotle" Informationphilosopher:

"a man is the author of his own actions, if we are unable to trace conduct back to any other origins than those within ourselves, then actions of which the origins are within us (ἐν ἡμῖν), themselves depend upon us (ἐφ' ἡμῖν), and are voluntary

(ἐκούσια

- willed).
(Nichomachean Ethics, III.v.6, 1113b19-22) 4

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