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20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / a. Will to Act

23316	For Plato and Aristotle there is no will; there is only rational desire for what is seen as good [Plato, by Frede,M]
	Full Idea: Neither Plato nor Aristotle has a notion of the will. …Willing is a form of desire which is specific to reason. If reason perceives something as good, it wills or desires it.
	From: report of Plato (The Republic [c.374 BCE], 577e) by Michael Frede - A Free Will 1
	A reaction: [Frede cites 577e, Aris. 413c8, 1113a15-, 1136b6] How do they explain the apparent decisions of non-rational animals? No modern neuroscientist thinks there is a physical object called a person's 'will'.