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The opposite can also be true. Where the object of passion and will do not coincide. This affects ones voluntariness and eventually ones culpability. The degree of the passion matters. The more intense, the less culpable and vise versa.

Interesting stuff.

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(They need to increase the word count on these)

"..the will has difficulty overriding the phantasm... as the soul is intent on what the phantasm holds rather than something else."

"...passion is capable of a two-fold relationship with the will."

If the object of passion is the same as the object of the will, then there is... voluntas secundum passionem or volition with passion.

Topics considered are volition (willpower), passions (things you want), and appetites (things you need). First, the author outlines how ones volition can be affected by phantasms (pictures in one's mind)

"... the cogitative power (bridge between physical experiences and the intellect) asseses the phantasm and thereby moves the passions, captivating the faculties of the soul."

"Wisdom steadies hope and enables us to practice the moral virtues in their highest degree and it makes the virtues truly divine. Wisdom gives the saints a divine sense by which they judge all things. "

Topics considered are wisdom and folly.

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Dense, coherent, logical. Difficult read but satisfying.