PHL200Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Episteme, Techne, Eudaimonia

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Within the class of voluntary acts, there are: Actions ones that are chosen or decided (when it is the product of deliberation) We deliberate about what is up to us / in our powers. For a doctor does not deliberate whether he does not heal, but assume the end and find out how and when it could be attained or achieved. We deliberate not about the ends but the means. Reason from the end & the necessary end to achieve it. Deliberative desire to do what is in our power. Wish set by our character / state of the soul. Constituted having the wrong sort of end you wish for the right thing if. This gives us a prescription of where to look whether we know if some acts are praiseworthy. What is nature of being forced you have the right character. Virtuous person has a virtuous state of character.

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