PHILOS 25A Lecture Notes - Lecture 35: Nicomachean Ethics, Kone
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Four kinds of actions: virtue, then, is about feeling and actions. These receive praise or blame when they are voluntary, but pardon, sometimes even pity, when they are involuntary. Acts under compulsion the moving cause lies outside of the agent; noting is contributed by the involuntary agent. Acts caused by the agent, but owing to ignorance: mixed actions: the choice of the goal lies outside of the agent, but the agent contributes to the action (e. g. actions under duress) Perhaps we should say that something is forced unconditionally whenever its cause it external and the agent contributes nothing. Other things are involuntary in themselves, but choiceworthy on this occasion and as the price of these , and their origin is in the agent. These are involuntary in themselves, but, on this occasion, and as the price for these voluntary. Still they would seem to be more like voluntary actions, since actions involve particular , and these.
