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    The practical intellect and the will are not separate pow... — Carmelics
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    The practical intellect and the will are not separate powers, but one power with two separate acts

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    • 1.The intellect and the will have different ends: the intellect aims at truth, the will aims at the good
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    • 2.According to the doctrine of the transcendentals, the true and the good differ only intensionally, not extensionally
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    • 3.If the ends of two powers do not differ extensionally, then the powers themselves do not differ extensionally
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    • 1.Aquinas distinguishes intellect and will as really distinct faculties because their formal objects differ: truth (verum) versus good (bonum) as such.
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    • 2.The intensional/extensional convergence of transcendentals does not collapse the real distinction between faculties ordered to them, since acts differ in kind by their formal ratios.
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    • 3.Philip's own Chancellor-era Summa de bono presupposes distinct operative powers to explain why error in judgment does not entail defect in willing, requiring separate causal seats.
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    • 1.Scotus argues that the will's self-motion (as an active power originating its own act) is irreducible to any intellectual operation, establishing an asymmetry of causal kind, not merely act.
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    • 2.If practical intellect and will were one power with two acts, akrasia would be inexplicable, since knowing the right act and failing to will it would require no transition between distinct powers.
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    Although not as well known, Philip’s psychology also exhibits some innovative features and influenced later thinkers, in particular, Albert the Great. In the early thirteenth century, theorists accounted for human abilities by arguing that in order to do what they do, agents must possess certain capacities or powers. Thus for every ability, there must be a corresponding and separate power. Human beings have the ability to think; therefore, they must have a cognitive power, often called intellect
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