(also called Intellectual Appetite or Rational Appetite).— The spiritual appetite that is directly moved by what the intellect apprehends as good (whether apparently or really).
(also called Speculative Wisdom).— A science of things in their first principles or causes. Specifically, wisdom judges lower things in light of higher things. In the order of cognition, wisdom render...
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