Sentence examples for faculty of desire from inspiring English sources

Ordinarily, the faculty of cognition aims at truth, and the faculty of desire aims at action.

A person has a better character when the faculty of desire submits willingly to the faculty of reason.

Ultimately, though, Aristotle does come to the conclusion that there is a faculty of desire (orektikon) whose occupation it is to initiate animal motion.

Kant then explains that while morality is the supreme good, it is not the complete good "as the object of the faculty of desire of rational finite beings" (5:110).

Women's souls are superior to those of men, because the moral character of women makes their faculty of desire, and ultimately also their faculty of reason, better than men's.

For this reason, Aristotle concludes, there is a faculty of desire whose activities and objects are primarily, if not autonomously or discretely, responsible for initiating end-directed motion in animals.

The mind losing sight of the fact that persons are around him, is occupied by the one controlling desire, a desire which absorbs every faculty of his being.

Developing innovative library services requires a real world understanding of faculty members' desired curricular goals.

Collectively it appears that the need to cover content outweighs faculty's desire to teach the process of science even when faculty feel it is critically important that students learn these skills.

They are then treated as mere composites or offshoots of those other faculties: a peculiar kind of belief, or a vague kind of desire or will.

Due to the urgency of the situation and the senior faculty's desire to be responsive, the pre and post questionnaire was developed by the Task Force.