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“"Since then it is none of the aforementioned things, what is it, or how is it characterised? Voluntary it plainly is, but not all voluntary action is an object of Moral Choice. May we not say then, it is 'that voluntary which has passed through a stage of previous deliberation?'"”
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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