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Full Idea
It seems perplexing in Aristotle that he apparently claims that virtues involve choice, while feelings do not.
Gist of Idea
Feelings are vital to virtue, but virtue requires choice, which feelings lack
Source
comment on Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics [c.334 BCE], 1104b10) by L.A. Kosman - Being Properly Affected p.110
Book Ref
'Essays on Aristotle's Ethics', ed/tr. Rorty,Amélie Oksenberg [University of California 1980], p.110
A Reaction
This captures the Kantian unease about Aristotle's theory. Presumably the answer is that choice comes into the training of the feelings, including self-training. Is choice involved in a dog trained to beg?