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Descartes says in the Meditations that when forming a judgment, "it is clear by the natural light that perception of the intellect should always precede (praecedere semper debere) the determination of the will" (1641, 7 60).
His two-faculty theory of judgment requires an interaction between the perceptions of the intellect and the will's assent (a theory elaborated in the Fourth Meditation).
The certainty that we seek in metaphysical inquiry "occurs in the clear perceptions of the intellect and nowhere else" (Second Replies, AT 7 145, CSM 2 104).
Just as Descartes had urged that erroneous beliefs about the nature of body can be avoided by attending to the clear and distinct perceptions of the intellect, so Malebranche counseled that we avoid error by attending to what the clear idea of matter reveals to us about the nature of body.
In all actions moderates are looking for the proper balance of intellect and emotion; clear perception and empathy; self interest and perspective; male and female; Yin and Yang.
But the brain would retain its memory, its intellect, its perception of sight and sound, and its sense of self.
The "second intellect" (actually the third hypostasis of intellect) is a faculty of the rational soul, which via sense perception and imagination (the "internal senses") conveys information to the higher hypostasis in the rational soul.
"There might be a misconception of intellect".
Equality is not the opposite of intellect; it depends on intellect for its true realization.
Gossip is the acceptable face of intellect".
Robbery crime of intellect; murder is crime of base passions.
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