 One central difference between Olivi’s and Aristotle’s approaches to virtue ethics is that while the latter thinks that a person’s moral character determines how he acts after the practical reasoning is done, Olivi argues that there always remains a choice. Although one’s moral character may statistically guide him to choose a certain type of action, Olivi’s focus is more on the actual choice, which is in all cases completely free. Moral education and habituation may improve one’s ability to make morally good choices, but ultimately moral improvement is a matter of simply starting to do the right thing instead of wrong one. Thus, Olivi is a virtue ethicist but his virtue ethics is of a different breed than Aristotle’s.