Ends of each. The Epideictic speaker is concerned with virtue and vice, praising the one and censuring the other. The forms of virtue. Definitions of wrongdoing as injury voluntary inflicted contrary to law. Enumeration and elucidation of the seven causes of human action, viz.
All voluntary actions are good or apparently good, pleasant or apparently pleasant.
The pleasant has yet to be considered. Definition of pleasure, and analysis of things pleasant. The characters and circumstances which lead men to commit wrong, or make them the victions of wrong. A wrongdoer must either understand and intend the action, or not understand and intend it. In the former case, he must be acting either from deliberate choice or from passion.