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'Thinking About Mathematics', 'Nicomachean Ethics' and 'Some Models for Implicature'
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20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / a. Practical reason
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Practical intellect serves to arrive at the truth which corresponds to right appetite [Aristotle]
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Practical reason is truth-attaining, and focused on actions good for human beings [Aristotle]
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We deliberate about means, not ends [Aristotle]
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Seeing particulars as parts of larger wholes is to perceive their value [Achtenberg on Aristotle]
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Prudence is mainly concerned with particulars, which is the sphere of human conduct [Aristotle]
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Virtue ensures that we have correct aims, and prudence that we have correct means of achieving them [Aristotle]
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The one virtue of prudence carries with it the possession of all the other virtues [Aristotle]
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One cannot be prudent without being good [Aristotle]
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20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / b. Intellectualism
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Bad people are just ignorant of what they ought to do [Aristotle]
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Some people are good at forming opinions, but bad at making moral choices [Aristotle]
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For Socrates virtues are principles, involving knowledge, but we say they only imply the principle of practical reason [Aristotle]
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20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / c. Reasons as causes
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Our reasoned acts are held to be voluntary and our own doing [Aristotle]
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20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 4. Responsibility for Actions
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If you repent of an act done through ignorance, you acted involuntarily, not non-voluntarily [Aristotle]
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For Aristotle responsibility seems negative, in the absence of force or ignorance [Irwin on Aristotle]
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20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 5. Action Dilemmas / a. Dilemmas
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A man should sooner die than do some dreadful things, no matter how cruel the death [Aristotle]
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