Full Idea
Neither Plato nor Aristotle has a notion of the will. …Willing is a form of desire which is specific to reason. If reason perceives something as good, it wills or desires it.
Gist of Idea
For Plato and Aristotle there is no will; there is only rational desire for what is seen as good
Source
report of Plato (The Republic [c.374 BCE], 577e) by Michael Frede - A Free Will 1
Book Reference
Frede,Michael: 'A Free Will' [Univ of California 2011], p.20
A Reaction
[Frede cites 577e, Aris. 413c8, 1113a15-, 1136b6] How do they explain the apparent decisions of non-rational animals? No modern neuroscientist thinks there is a physical object called a person's 'will'.