Note 3 — PART II.
Henry Davis translation
“As the rational soul can only involuntarily be subject to ignorance, it is only against its will that it can be evil. Every volition, by its essential nature, pursues the good; no one is willing to be subject to evil or to become bad, inasmuch as the end of volition is not the immediate act, but the object for the sake of which the act is undertaken; and no man enters on any act or undertaking, except for the sake of ultimate good. Now a man, when engaging in any act apparently good, may err, and choose the evil instead of the good; but in that case he labours under an involuntary error, and does not what he really desires, but what, in spite of his wishes, seems to him either as an immediate good or a mean to ultimate good.”—Ritter’s History of Philos. (Morrison’s Tr.) ii. 387.