Aristotle's Non-Voluntary Act

Since only intended actions can be measured as virtuous, it is needed to inspect what it means for an action to be voluntary. An involuntary act is when something is done using force or through ignorance it also involves pain and regret. (pg.31 s13) An action done with fear or for the sake of some decent action is more voluntary than involuntary, although they are mixed. (pg. 30 s6) For an act to be involuntary, there must be some outward belief causing the action and the person must not contribute anything to the action. An action done through ignorance is not necessarily involuntary. In fact there are times when people do it willingly. If the person regrets the action which he did in ignorance, it was involuntary. But if he does not regret the action, it cannot be considered totally involuntary, even if he did it in ignorance. Therefore it’s considered …show more content…
The only way that it will be considered involuntary is if the person were to regret after words but then again people already know the consequences from the start and just do it out of ignorance, this is what I agree with. Then again there are those people who do not care what so ever and will conduct anything voluntary and will not have any remorse or regret as he stated himself it is made non-willingly ( made this word up) ( pg.32 s.1110b) I also do believe that put into a bad situation when your forced to do something again going back to my parents being kidnapped I myself will do what is asked for, due to me loving these people very much and I feel like it’s a mixture of voluntary and involuntary for the same reason that I know what these kidnappers are asking me to do is wrong but I will do for the sake of the family, even though I do it involuntary because I know I will regret it if I were to not do it and let my parents be