Hence it is not the speculative intellect that moves, but the practical intellect (De Anima iii, 9).
But since the will is in the reason, it is of the very essence of the will, according to the Philosopher (De Anima iii, text.
But "things are named from their chief characteristic" (De Anima ii, 4).
Be faithful then, pious souls, in this exercise, during this short and miserable life, that you may afterwards chant eternally in heaven with the Most Holy Virgin: Magnificat anima mea Dominum!
It is the old anima mundi of the Platonic physics, a vital soul of the world, distinct from but created by the Supreme God.
I may mean a mere anima mundi; or an initial principle which once was in action and now is not; or collective humanity.
Anima pellegrina seems to be Italian of no later date than Pergolese's airs, and suits the time as the familiar phrase of the more modern love-song suited the day of Bellini.
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They are gone, they are gone beyond my keeping-- Anima mundi, sis memor!
Oh, in the years when even this seeming Lightens the eyes of Love no more, Dream them still in thy timeless dreaming Anima mundi, sis memor!
The soul has created its own torment, but in Purgatory the fires die out because they deal with the anima separata, never with the senses.
In the present state of life human contemplation is impossible without phantasms, because it is connatural to man to see the intelligible species in the phantasms, as the Philosopher states (De Anima iii, 7).
Philosopher (De Anima ii, 1), every operation of the intellect may be called "consideration.
Further, the Philosopher states (De Anima iii, 6) that there are two operations of the intellective part.
Further, in the powers of the soul the understanding is condivided with the will (De Anima iii, 9, 10).
For the soul is the principle of life by its essence: since the Philosopher says (De Anima ii, 4) that "in living things to live is to be.
According to the Philosopher (De Anima iii, 9), the will also is in the reason: wherefore charity is not excluded from the reason through being in the will.
