El bien como objeto del querer. Suárez y los presupuestos apetitivos y cognoscitivos de la acción racional

• Main Author: Alejandro G. Vigo
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika 2017-04-01
• Series: Scientia et Fides
• Subjects: action; desire; will; practical intellect; ratio boni; ratio finis
• Online Access: https://apcz.umk.pl/czasopisma/index.php/SetF/article/view/13207

<p>The good as the object of wanting. Suárez on the appetitive and cognitive conditions of rational action</p><p>This paper discusses Suárez’s characterization of the formal object of wanting, <em>i.e.</em> the good. Wanting, in all its possible forms, is based on cognition, in its various possible forms. But the starting point for wanting something is given in a judgement about its goodness. What is wanted, in its turn, provides the starting point for deliberation. The <em>ratio boni</em> marks the first transtion (<em>i.e.</em> the transtition from cognition to wanting), the <em>ratio finis</em> the second one (<em>i.e.</em> the transition from wanting to deliberation).</p>