"The mind--considered as intellect and will together--is, if all goes well, supreme in the human soul; but neither intellect nor will is an autocratic emperor; rather, they are joint consuls on the model of the Roman Republic."
— Kenny, Anthony (b. 1931)
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Oxford
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Oxford University Press
Date
1992
Metaphor
"The mind--considered as intellect and will together--is, if all goes well, supreme in the human soul; but neither intellect nor will is an autocratic emperor; rather, they are joint consuls on the model of the Roman Republic."
Metaphor in Context
But if the will can, in this way, control the intellect, the will itself is at the mercy of the intellect. For the will is the capacity for rational desire; and the will can only pursue what the intellect can understand. The mind--considered as intellect and will together--is, if all goes well, supreme in the human soul; but neither intellect nor will is an autocratic emperor; rather, they are joint consuls on the model of the Roman Republic.
(p. 22)
(p. 22)
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Citation
Anthony Kenny, The Metaphysics of Mind (Oxford UP, 1992).
Date of Entry
03/18/2013
