Sentence examples for rational appetite from inspiring English sources

He describes the human will as a rational appetite or inclination to the good, functioning with regard to ends or goals rather than with means, which relate more to the intellect.

Will is rational appetite.

Finally, Justice is a virtue of the rational appetite or will.

Medieval philosophers distinguish between two kinds of appetite; a rational appetite, called the will, that is responsive to the dictates of the intellect, and an appetite that is responsive to sensory apprehension, called the sensory appetite.

While human beings have many appetites informed by sense cognition of the world, they also have rational appetite that is informed by an intellectual apprehension of the world and the goods within it appropriate to human flourishing.

The moral virtues are the habits that perfect the various powers concerned with human appetites, including rational appetite, conferring upon them an aptness for the right use of those appetites.

Aquinas stressed in a number of places that God and angels have no passions, although they do perform acts of will (rational appetites) comparable to our passions in some respects.

Stoics deny there are any non-rational desires of appetite capable of impelling action.

Here we are clearly in the neighborhood of the 'rational appetite' accounts of will one finds in the medieval Aristotelians.

He passionately believed in a God who created the world and who allowed himself to be known – but not through revelation, in the sense of something contained in scripture or church tradition; rather through the compassion that comes naturally to us, and the appetite for rational wonder that he has instilled in his creatures.

Charlie Himmelberg, an author of Goldman's report, considers the appetite for leveraged assets rational, since the Great Moderation makes borrowing safer.