نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
عنوان مقاله English
نویسنده English
In this article, article I intend to consider the explanation of the will and the ability of this explanation to answer the difficulties concerning this issue in Aquinas philosophy. He believed that the soul is a substance and its powers are described as accidents for it, namely they don't follow necessarily from the soul's nature. Aquinas accepted Aristotle's idea about the appetitive power as a distinct power of the soul. In this Philosophical system intellectual appetite is distinguished from sensitive appetite, The former is depending on understanding and the latter is related to sensation. The intellectual appetite is named Will. On the other hand Aquinas believed in free will Whose specific sign is choice. Therefore we ought to accept that the will is affected not only by intellect but also by sensation, and Aquinas believed it too. But if one describes the will as a intellectual appetite he will not be able to believe in the free will.
