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“"Now Moral Choice is plainly voluntary, but the two are not co-extensive, voluntary being the more comprehensive term; for first, children and all other animals share in voluntary action but not in Moral Choice; and next, sudden actions we call voluntary but do not ascribe them to Moral Choice."”
Nicomachean Ethics, Book 3, Chapter IV·384-322 BCE

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Aristotle
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384-322 BCE · Peripatetic Philosophy
Greek philosopher and polymath.
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