Βούλησις
wish, rational desire
Translated by Marcelo Boeri13 Jun 2000Vetting: high8 revisions
Translation
"Wish and choice are practical faculties of the soul. [...] And wish belongs by itself to the rational soul itself, while choice belongs to the part [of the soul] which is involved with lack of reason. For when the soul is out of [or beyond] becoming, it operates only according to wish, for [in this case] it is only in the good.1 But when it is in becoming, since the irrational faculties are involved with it, [...] then it has choice due to its involvement with the irrational. That is why sometimes it is leans toward2 unreason and sometimes toward reason, and it chooses one before the other. These [are] irrational faculties of the soul."3