Actions and states of character are both voluntary.
Actions and states of character are both voluntary.
They are both voluntary, and so we are responsible for both. But they are voluntary in different ways.
We can directly choose to do individual honest or dishonest actions. But we can't directly choose our character. Instead, we choose individual actions -- and these will build up or destroy our character. We are responsible for our states of character because we are responsible for the individual actions that build up or destroy them.
Actions and states of character are both voluntary.
Aristotle rejects this. He thinks that we wouldn't be responsible for our states of character if they weren't in some sense voluntary.