The role is nearly dramatic; Kendrick, whose deftly shifting line readings present an intellect in self-doubting motion, doesn't so much play the role as overcome it.
But what all types of beauty have in common is that they consist in form or images of the Forms eternally present in Intellect (I 6. 2).
Intellectual intuitive cognition does not require phantasms; the cognized object somehow just causes the intellectual act by which its existence is made present to the intellect.
Intellectual appetite is aimed at objects as presented by the intellect and sense appetite at objects as presented by the senses.
Right now the intellect presents x as good, so I will x; but later on the intellect presents y as good, so then I will y.
She will be remembered for her ever-present support, keen intellect, and as a loving wife and mother.
These imprints originate as sensible forms that are conveyed to the imagination and modified by it before being presented to the intellect.
A judgment, and hence an instance of (at least putative) knowledge, does not arise in this scheme until the will has affirmed or denied the content presented by the intellect.
Since what specifies a cognitive power is its proper object – i.e. the formal aspect under which something is represented by that power –, the identification of the first known with the proper object of the intellect presents a significant claim.
The intellect presents a variety of goods to be realized, none of which imposes itself in such a way as to be necessarily desired or chosen above the others.
