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“The will may be good and yet overmastered by the force of desire, so that the act done is contrary to the agent’s will.”
Nicomachean Ethics, Book 7, Section 2·384-322 BCE
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Aristotle
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384-322 BCE · Peripatetic Philosophy
Greek philosopher and polymath.
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