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    It is not the case that The practical intellect and the will are not separate powers

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    • 1.The practical intellect presents objects as good or bad, while the will responds to that presentation as a distinct appetitive act.
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    • 2.Aquinas distinguishes intellectus practicus from voluntas precisely because cognition and appetition are irreducibly different modes of operation.
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    • 3.A single power cannot simultaneously be the formal cause of rational judgment and the efficient cause of voluntary motion toward a presented good.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Philip Chancellor's own account of synderesis requires a separate volitional capacity to explain why moral knowledge does not automatically produce moral action.
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    • 2.The phenomenon of akrasia—acting against one's better judgment—is only explicable if the intellective and appetitive functions are genuinely distinct powers.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.There is only one motive power underlying both sensory desire and intellectual desire
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    • 2.No real distinction exists among motive powers
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