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For the present we proceed to say that, the Justs and the Unjusts

being what have been mentioned, a man is said to act unjustly or

justly when he embodies these abstracts in voluntary actions, but

when in involuntary, then he neither acts unjustly or justly

except accidentally; I mean that the being just or unjust is

really only accidental to the agents in such cases.

So both unjust and just actions are limited by the being

voluntary or the contrary: for when an embodying of the Unjust is

voluntary, then it is blamed and is at the same time also an

unjust action: but, if voluntariness does not attach, there will

be a thing which is in itself unjust but not yet an unjust

action.