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Ideas for 'Dissoi Logoi - on Double Arguments', 'Physics' and 'Intros to Russell's 'Essays in Analysis''

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20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / b. Intellectualism

1567	How could someone who knows everything fail to act correctly? [Anon (Diss)]
	Full Idea: If someone knows the nature of everything, how could he fail to be able also to act correctly in every case?
	From: Anon (Diss) (Dissoi Logoi - on Double Arguments [c.401 BCE], §8)

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]
	Full Idea: Why is he going for a walk? We say 'to be healthy', and having said that we have assigned the cause.
	From: Aristotle (Physics [c.337 BCE], 194b33-5)
	A reaction: Stout gives this as the predecessor of Anscombe's account of intentions. The thought is that the explanation of the act is its purpose. Such teleology is more plausible than the Aristotelian teleology about non-human events.