Aristotle’s Distinction of Voluntary and

Involuntary Actions:

“VOLUNTARY ACTIONS”
 Voluntary Actions- these are acts originating from
individual performing the act using knowledge about the
situation of the act.

• When an action is produced with involvement of

thoughts, they are called voluntary action.
 It involves actions like:

• Walking
• Eating

• Jumping
 Classification of Voluntary Action
A. Voluntary- actions performed from will and reason.
- proceeding from will or the ones choice or consent.
- actions done willingly without being force.
- comes from Latin word voluntarius which means
“of once free will”.
 Example of Voluntary:
•Teaching your brother doing homework •Feeding stray cats
• B. Related to Compulsion- It is considered as a mixed
of voluntary and involuntary. It is more voluntary if
the desire and choice have been performed and
involuntary if it is considered preferences or
alternatives.
Example: You are asked to perform a crime and your options
are;
you do it and your family survives or you don’t do it
and your family will be murdered.
• Such acts in the end must be classified as being more
akin to voluntary, since the man freely chooses between
alternatives. Actions cannot be judged only according
to abstract moral principles, but must be evaluated in
regard to the particulars of the given situation and there
are some things which a good man ought not to do
under any circumstances.
Test I: Fill in the blank
1. _______ is an actions performed from will and reason.
2. _______ is considered mixed voluntary and involuntary.
3. _______ is acts originating from individual performing acts
with knowledge about the situation of the acts.
4. _______ Voluntary comes from the Latin word.
5. _______ Voluntarius which means.
Test II: Essay
6-10. How does Voluntary action related to compulsion?