Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Cardinal/Hayward/Jones, Ashvaghosha and Aristotle

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20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 2. Acting on Beliefs / a. Acting on beliefs
22515 Choice results when deliberation brings together an opinion with an inclination [Aristotle]
20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / a. Practical reason
73 Practical intellect serves to arrive at the truth which corresponds to right appetite [Aristotle]
4371 Seeing particulars as parts of larger wholes is to perceive their value [Achtenberg on Aristotle]
69 We deliberate about means, not ends [Aristotle]
5247 Prudence is mainly concerned with particulars, which is the sphere of human conduct [Aristotle]
80 Virtue ensures that we have correct aims, and prudence that we have correct means of achieving them [Aristotle]
82 The one virtue of prudence carries with it the possession of all the other virtues [Aristotle]
22508 Unlike in inanimate things, in animate things actions have more than one starting point [Aristotle]
22514 The deliberative part of the soul discerns explanatory causes [Aristotle]
20212 Practical reason is truth-attaining, and focused on actions good for human beings [Aristotle]
5249 One cannot be prudent without being good [Aristotle]
20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / b. Intellectualism
67 Bad people are just ignorant of what they ought to do [Aristotle]
5218 Some people are good at forming opinions, but bad at making moral choices [Aristotle]
81 For Socrates virtues are principles, involving knowledge, but we say they only imply the principle of practical reason [Aristotle]
20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / c. Reasons as causes
20042 We assign the cause of someone's walking when we say why they are doing it [Aristotle]
5267 Our reasoned acts are held to be voluntary and our own doing [Aristotle]
20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 4. Responsibility for Actions
5213 If you repent of an act done through ignorance, you acted involuntarily, not non-voluntarily [Aristotle]
22507 An action is voluntary when it is accompanied by thought of some kind [Aristotle]
4384 For Aristotle responsibility seems negative, in the absence of force or ignorance [Irwin on Aristotle]
23319 We are responsible if our actions reflect our motivation [Aristotle, by Frede,M]
20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 5. Action Dilemmas / a. Dilemmas
5212 A man should sooner die than do some dreadful things, no matter how cruel the death [Aristotle]