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Moral Goodness is concerned with feelings and actions. Those voluntary actions will reaceive either praise or blame, but those involuntary actions receive pardon and sometime pity too. Actions are involuntary when they are preformed out of compulsion or through ignorance.
Choice is clearly a voluntary thing, but choice and voluntary do not have the same connotation. The people who identify choice with desire, temper, wish, or some kind of opinion, do so mistakingly. A desire can be contrary to choice but not to another desire. A desire is concerned with pleasure and pain, but choice involves neither. Acts due to temper are thought to be less involved with choice then any other. Choice is neither wish, but there seems to be a close connection between the two. Though, wish is more concerned with the ends and choice with the means. It cannot be opinion either, for opinion deals with everything-- things eternal, impossible, or things that lie within our own power. Opinions are distinguised between true or false, not good or bad. Choice needs a rational principle foundation, usually obtained from previous deliberation.
Deliberation is about means, not ends. We set some end before ourselves then proceed to consider how and by what mean it can be attainted. If one end appears to be attainable by several means, they then evaluate the best and easiest way for attaining that end. If the end can be brought about by one means, they consider how exactly it will be brought about by this, and if any other means will be involved, and they do this until they see the first cause, which is last in the order of discovery.
Object of choice is something within our power after deliberation. We first make a decision after a deliberation then make an aim in accordance with that deliberation.
Choice is clearly a voluntary thing, but choice and voluntary do not have the same connotation. The people who identify choice with desire, temper, wish, or some kind of opinion, do so mistakingly. A desire can be contrary to choice but not to another desire. A desire is concerned with pleasure and pain, but choice involves neither. Acts due to temper are thought to be less involved with choice then any other. Choice is neither wish, but there seems to be a close connection between the two. Though, wish is more concerned with the ends and choice with the means. It cannot be opinion either, for opinion deals with everything-- things eternal, impossible, or things that lie within our own power. Opinions are distinguised between true or false, not good or bad. Choice needs a rational principle foundation, usually obtained from previous deliberation.
Deliberation is about means, not ends. We set some end before ourselves then proceed to consider how and by what mean it can be attainted. If one end appears to be attainable by several means, they then evaluate the best and easiest way for attaining that end. If the end can be brought about by one means, they consider how exactly it will be brought about by this, and if any other means will be involved, and they do this until they see the first cause, which is last in the order of discovery.
Object of choice is something within our power after deliberation. We first make a decision after a deliberation then make an aim in accordance with that deliberation.