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20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 1. Intention to Act / a. Nature of intentions

23146	Motives produce intentions, which lead to actions [Driver]
	Full Idea: Motives will cause persons for form intentions; it is intentions which more directly guide actions.
	From: Julia Driver (The Virtues and Human Nature [1996], 3)
	A reaction: This is invites the question of whether there is a sharp distinction between the motive and the action. Detectives look for motives, but law courts look for intentions.

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / d. Weakness of will

20850	Passions are judgements; greed thinks money is honorable, and likewise drinking and lust [Chrysippus, by Diog. Laertius]
	Full Idea: Chrysippus says (in his On Passions) that the passions are judgements; for greed is a supposition that money is honorable, and similarly for drunkennes and wantonness and others.
	From: report of Chrysippus (fragments/reports [c.240 BCE]) by Diogenes Laertius - Lives of Eminent Philosophers 07.111
	A reaction: This is an endorsement of Socrates's intellectualist reading of weakness of will, as against Aristotle's assigning it to overpowering passions.