Intentional actions are caused by the direct passions (including the instincts).
The causes of action he describes are those he has already identified: the instincts and the other direct passions.
Direct passions arise immediately from "good or evil, from plain or pleasure;" indirect passions require the "conjunction of other qualities," particularly the interposition of an idea (T II.1.1 276).
Curiosity, or love of truth falls among the direct passions, which also include desire and aversion, grief and joy, hope and fear, and somewhat oddly, volition.
Perhaps for this reason, he treats the will in his discussion of the direct passions, identifying it as "the internal impression we feel and are conscious of, when we knowingly give rise to any new motion of our body, or new perception of our mind" (T II.3.1 399).
I would just like to direct the passion in a wiser direction.
The icon of the Baltimore Orioles, Ripken said it was time to leave the field and spend more time with his children and direct his passion and energy to a new love -- youth baseball.
It is not yet clear if Lee will direct the passion project.
Rather than denying this natural human weakness, I suggest that we direct the passion kindled toward the vast numbers of the truly needy.
You need teachers who know how to direct your passion for technology and media from consumption to literacy.
