It's not merely that he thinks there can be no genuine freedom in mere intellectual appetite.
But Scotus insists that mere intellectual appetite is not enough to guarantee freedom in the sense needed for morality.
If, on the other hand, it turns into a mere crusade of appetite against appetite, of a contest between the brutal greed of the 'have nots' and the brutal greed of the 'haves,' then it has no significance for good, but only for evil".
Whether about wheat or meat, sugar or starch, calories or carbohydrates, this fat or that fat, we seem to have an insatiable appetite for mere grains of truth about diet and health, rather than the complete recipe.
Yet few G.I.s equated rising material production with the mere sating of individual appetites, but rather as a means to build a more secure "free world" in which the "common man" (another phrase they popularized) would be vastly better fed, housed, educated, leisured, and insured than ever before.
According to Aquinas, freedom comes in simply because the will is intellectual appetite rather than mere sense appetite.
We think the most important indicator seems to be the consumer, who we prefer to call the traveler, and who today has an increasing appetite, far beyond a mere fad, for experiences, instead of the same old conventional offerings.
No quarrel about mere ideas is permitted to blunt the appetite for power.Can the Tories follow suit?
Potentiality here is taken not as mere receptivity of form but as an active appetite for form, that is, for (full) actuality.
