Remarks to Book 3

"In general, choice seems to relate to the things that are in our power. By choosing what is good or bad we are men of a certain character, which we are not by holding certain opinions." Our character is determined by our choices, not by our opinions I feel. "The object of choice being one of the things in our own power which is desired after deliberation, choice will be deliberate desire of things in our own power; for when we have reached a judgement as a result of deliberation, we desire in accordance with our deliberation." We decide what to choose after deliberating and the choice then is our desire I feel. "To the unjust and the self-indulgent men it was open at the beginning not to become men of this kind, and so they are unjust and self-indulgent voluntarily; but now that they have become so it is not possible for them not to be so. But not only are the vices of the soul voluntary, but those of the body also for some men, whom we accordingly blame." The bad man becomes bad by choice and then finds it impossible to shed the bad habits. I also think that we are good or bad by choice and we are not born that way. We make the decisions which can alter our lives and can ultimately lead to good or bad things.