What Aristotle thinks about agency

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Greek philosopher (384 to 322 BCE); studied in Plato's Academy until 347 BCE; founded the Lyceum in Athens in 335 BCE.

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1. c. 367–322 BCE

   Our readingVirtue is in our own power, and so is vice

   Their wordsTherefore virtue also is in our own power, and so too vice.

   ↗Nicomachean Ethics, Book Three (tr. W. D. Ross, 1925)en.wikisource.org All 2 from this book