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Bostock, having attributed the stronger claim to Aristotle, refutes it with a number of telling counterexamples. 8 So understood, Aristotle in 1110a18 ff. argues as follows: actions such as throwing the cargo overboard in a storm to save the crew are voluntary but if throwing the cargo overboard were to occur (in different situations) without this further goal, those actions would probably 4 david charles when one acts under coercion because of factors no one could withstand, the resulting actions will still be *voluntary* provided that one chooses to act (even if the factors go beyond human nature to resist).
In the analogous passage in EE 1226b8, he talks of choice (hairesis). 5 Animals can say ‘yes’ to something simply by finding it pleasant and going for it. They need not even consider the option of not going for it (let alone the option of doing something else) when they *voluntarily* select it. In such cases, doing the action still rests with the agent since it would not have occurred if they had said ‘no’ and refrained from acting. For further the eudemian ethics on the ‘voluntary’ 3 consist simply in their selecting (and going for) what seems pleasant to them.
His account of the *voluntary* is tailor-made for character revealing actions of this type. However, as we have seen, he held in the EE that the *voluntary* does not extend more widely to include actions which are coerced or ‘unnatural’ (out of character). W. Taylor’s Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics Books II–IV, 164 ff. 35 He is here developing a more inclusive account of the *voluntary*, resting on the idea of choice as the appropriate starting point, as he seeks an account which will underpin legal practices of praise and blame and can be applied to children and animals as well as mature humans.