Systems of Ethics and Value Theory by William S. Sahakian

Author:William S. Sahakian [Sahakian, William S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Published: 2013-10-10T00:00:00+00:00

That the will is a higher power than the intellect, as being the latter’s motive power, is clearly untrue. Because the intellect moves the will first and per se, for the will, as such, is moved by its object, which is the apprehended good; whereas the will moves the intellect accidentally as it were, in so far, namely, as the act of understanding is itself apprehended as a good, and on that account is desired by the will, with the result that the intellect understands actually. Even in this, the intellect preceded the will, for the will would never desire understanding, did not the intellect first apprehend its understanding as a good. — And again, the will moves the intellect to actual operation in the same way as an agent is said to move; whereas the intellect moves the will in the same way as the end moves, for the good understood is the end of the will. Now the agent in moving presupposes the end, for the agent does not move except for the sake of the end. It is therefore clear that the intellect is higher than the will absolutely, while the will is higher than the intellect accidentally and in a restricted sense.13

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