By scrolling through the outline you can find brief discussions of each of the assigned portions of the text. If you are seeking further, more detailed commentary on the text, go to the Commentary page where you can delve more deeply into the arguments of this part of the text. Still, we are not responsible for all that we do nor for all that we are. Aristotle introduces the distinction between voluntary and involuntary action.
Agents are responsible only for voluntary actions.
The agent lacks causal control over his action, i.e. if his action is the effect of causes external to himself, if he acts under compulsion or perhaps under duress. The agent is ignorant of the particulars of his action. General and particular ignorance are importantly different, because while general ignorance can be a culpable form of ignorance, particular ignorance can be an excusable form. General Ignorance is the lack of knowledge or false belief about what should be chosen and done. It is to be mistaken as to what ought or ought not to be one's end or purpose.