Choice
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Proairesis · al-ikhtiyār · deliberate desire · proairesis · proaireton · الاختيار
in the texts
Nicomachean Ethics
A voluntary act preceded by deliberation, concerned with means rather than ends, distinguished from desire, passion, wish, and opinion.
Some identify Choice with (1) Desire, or (2) Passion, or (3) Wish, or (4) some form of Opinion.
As then the object of choice is something within our power which after deliberation we desire, Choice will be a deliberate desire of things in our power;
Acts done from passion seem very far from being done of deliberate choice.
Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah
Voluntary choice, the differentia in the definition of man and the animal soul, split into attraction and repulsion to yield the two appetitive powers.
Man is a body possessed of soul (*mutanaffis*), sentient, moving by choice;
The animal soul is sentient and moving by choice;