PHL200Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Akon
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Heckon voluntary: principle / source / origin / starting point (arche is in the agent) not forced & done under compulsion, ex. In the circumstances you are being coerced to make a choice > not voluntary: in the circumstances now (voluntary) Akon involuntary has to be marked by pain & regret. Anything that is caused by ignorance is not voluntary. Through / in / on account of / blue of ignorance: particulars, can make the act involuntary, universals. I didn"t know that this case belongs to plagiarism: ignorance of what is actually good or right every vicious person is ignorant in that way. All who does wrong is ignorant in some way if one intentionally does bad, they are ignorant of the universals. Actions caused simply by appetite and emotions are voluntary but he doesn"t think that this makes them chosen. State of character: once you"ve got it, it is not really up to you to not have it.