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

23323	Earlier Stoics speak of assent, but not of choice, let alone of a will [Stoic school, by Frede,M]
	Full Idea: Stoics [before Epictetus] have a notion of assent, and hence the appropriate notion of a willing, but we do not yet have a notion of a choice [prohairesis], let alone of a will.
	From: report of Stoic school (fragments/reports [c.200 BCE]) by Michael Frede - A Free Will 3
	A reaction: The assent is just giving in to a desire, which is either rational or irrational. Choice implies a second-level thinking, of weighing the two desires. The will would then be a faculty which can do this (which seems to be the invention of Epictetus).

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 4. Responsibility for Actions

23305	Stoics said responsibility depends on rationality [Stoic school, by Sorabji]
	Full Idea: It is the Stoics who made responsibility depend on rationality.
	From: report of Stoic school (fragments/reports [c.200 BCE]) by Richard Sorabji - Rationality 'Ethical'
	A reaction: Aristotle's account of responsibility in 'Ethics' needs a high degree of rationality, far beyond even a rational non-human animal. And no one thinks small children are responsible.