Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics book 3 | The Voluntary and the Involuntary

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics book 3 | The Voluntary and the Involuntary | Philosophy Core Concepts

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This video focuses on Aristotle's work, the Nicomachean Ethics, and focuses upon his distinction between the voluntary and involuntary, including actions that are mixed, partly voluntary and partly involuntary, discussed in book 3.
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@MrMarktrumble 8 жыл бұрын

interesting. I understand the word"initiative" as Aristotle uses arche. When I have initiative, it means I start (and finish) what I do, with neither questioning or help from others. My weakness is forgetfulness and distraction ( or a revision of ends...) . Life long projects of "becoming wise", "owning my own home", or "becoming educated" where more like persistent guiding principles , where struggle and improvisation acted in the present to achieve these ends in the future. My life seems like trying to row a boat across a big lake. One takes a look across to the point one wants to go, but unfortunately, one must turn around, and fix the opposite point of reference on the shore one is leaving. Sometimes life seems like "no, no not this or that", and being pushed back by waves and knocked off course. Every once in a while one has to turn around and positively re-orient, but then its sit back wards and put your back and legs into it. The problems come if one loses all points of reference. But this is the same, reiterative method to achieving the end. What I lack is the analysis of a means that is an ordered sequence of dissimilar and necessary steps, and then the will to take that means. And perhaps this is my failure. Aristotle seems like common sense. Yes, and his genius is write it in an orderly, clear, and comprehensive way. ( by the way, if humans can't be immortal, how can the dead be effected by the living?)

@GregoryBSadler 8 жыл бұрын

+Mark Trumble I think what you're calling initiative here, would correspond less to arche, and more to prohairesis

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@MichaelJimenez416 5 жыл бұрын

I've never understood why Aristotle brings up compulsion as an instance of involuntary action, because he's so ungenerous to the vast majority of compulsion cases. How often is anyone forced so strongly by an external principle that they lose control of their physical position? And regardless, that doesn't seem like an action. In the case of coercion in B3C1, Aristotle argues that making a choice to undergo some sort of torture to save a loved one is voluntary, despite the fact that you have been forced into making a choice by an external principle. Surely you have set your wish and deliberated and have phronesis and have made a virtuous, praiseworthy decision, but it still feels like the moving principle to make the choice comes from outisde.

@GregoryBSadler 5 жыл бұрын

He classifies those forced choices as "mixed", not just as voluntary