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    It is not the case that Synderesis stands in opposition to free choice, sensuality, the impulse to sin, and proheresis.

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    • 1.Bonaventure treats synderesis as an affective spark that motivates rather than opposes sensuality, functioning as a corrective goad that works through rather than against lower appetites.
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    • 2.A faculty that operates by redirecting a tendency toward higher ends stands in a relationship of reformation to that tendency, not opposition, since opposition would preclude the cooperative moral psychology Bonaventure describes.
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    • 3.Therefore, the disparateness posited in the supporting argument conflates functional differentiation with genuine metaphysical or moral opposition.
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    • 1.Aquinas holds that synderesis and free choice share the same rational appetite as their substrate, making them aspects of a unified faculty rather than opposing potentialities.
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    • 2.If synderesis and free choice are rooted in the same volitional power, their relationship is one of hierarchical ordering, not opposition in the Aristotelian sense of contrariety or privation.
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    • 1.Qua potentiality, synderesis is disparate from free choice and from sensuality.
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    • 2.Qua disposition, synderesis is disparate from proheresis and the impulse to sin.
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    • 3.Disparateness in each mode entails a certain opposition to the corresponding faculty or tendency.
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