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The first step is a Wish, implied in the first here mentioned, viz. Deliberation, for it has been already laid down that Deliberation has for its object-matter means to Ends supposed to be set before the mind, the next step is Deliberation, the next Decision, the last the definite extending of the mental hand towards the object thus selected, the two last constitute [Greek: proairesis] in its full meaning.
Ethics 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle
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Damascene says (De Fide Orth. iii, 14) that _gnome_, i.e. opinion, thinking or cogitation, and _proairesis_, i.e. choice, "cannot possibly be attributed to our Lord, if we wish to speak with propriety."
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas
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Then, again, after one has become so disposed, choice or selection (proairesis and epiloge) comes into play.
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