The Summa Theologica of St Thomas Aquinas volume 4
The Summa Theologica of St Thomas Aquinas volume 4
Aquinas Thomas
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Therefore, according to that one thing, it moves the sensitive appetite in a deter- minate way. But the reason is a power that compares several things together : therefore from several things the intellectual appetite — that is, the will — may be moved ; but not of necessity from one thing. Third Article. whether the will is a higher power than the intellect ? We proceed thus to the Third Article: — Objection i . It would seem that the will is a higher power than the intellect. For the object o...f the will is good and the end. But the end is the first and highest cause. There- fore the will is the first and highest power. Obj. 2. Further, in the order of natural things we observe a progress from imperfect things to perfect. And this also appears in the powers of the soul : for sense precedes the intellect, which is more noble. Now the act of the will, in the natural order, follows the act of the intellect. Therefore the will is a more noble and perfect power than the intellect. Obj.
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