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[4]
Now the cause of action （the efficient, not the final cause） is
choice,1
and the cause of choice is desire and reasoning directed to some end. Hence choice
necessarily involves both intellect or thought and a certain disposition of character
[2 for
doing well and the reverse in the sphere of action necessarily involve thought and
character].
1 Cf. 3.2.1 note. Here again προαίρεσις seems to mean choice of means, not of ends.
2 This clause must be rejected as superfluous and logically unsound: the nature of action is explained by that of ‘choice,’ not vice versa.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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