The act of ‘wrong-doing’ is injury voluntarily inflicted - TopicsExpress



          

The act of ‘wrong-doing’ is injury voluntarily inflicted contrary to law. ‘Law’ is either special or general. By special law I mean that written law which regulates the life of a particular community; by general law, all those unwritten principles which are supposed to be acknowledged everywhere. We do things ‘voluntarily’ when we do them consciously and without constraint. (Not all voluntary acts are deliberate, but all deliberate acts are conscious-no one is ignorant of what he deliberately intends.) The causes of our deliberately intending harmful and wicked acts contrary to law are (1) vice, (2) lack of self-control. For the wrongs a man does to others will correspond to the bad quality or qualities that he himself possesses. So any wrong that any one does to others corresponds to his particular faults of character. Rhetoric ( A theory of Civic discourse ), by Aristotle.
Posted on: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 13:27:49 +0000

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