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Appendix: Aquinas on the Powers or Capabilities of a Human Being (Relevant Selections)
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APPENDIX Aquinas on the Powers or Capabilities of a Human Being (Relevant Selections) ✦ INTELLECTUAL POWERS Intellectual apprehension (INTELLECT) divinely infused principle that can influence intellectual apprehension: faith understanding, practical reasoning, and other acts of the intellect involved in decisionmaking processes; self-awareness and self-direction Intellectual appetite (WILL) divinely infused principles that can influence the intellectual appetite: hope and charity modes of tending in relation to goods or evils that one apprehends via the powers of intellectual apprehension: simple acts of the will, affections, and other acts of the will involved in decision-making processes; self-movement SENSORY POWERS Sensory apprehension interior senses:cogitative power (particular reason),memory,imagination,common sense exterior senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch Sensory appetite modes of tending in relation to goods or evils that one apprehends via the powers of sensory apprehension (under the influence of the intellect and will, usually through the medium of the cogitative power). irascible emotions: hope and despair; daring and fear; anger concupiscible emotions: love and hatred (first moment); desire and aversion (second moment ); delight and sorrow (third moment) ◆ 267 ◆ VEGETATIVE POWERS Apprehension on the part of God internal principles of order that make good human functioning possible on the level of living organism Natural appetite nutrition, growth, generation 268 APPENDIX ...