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. The relative ' might be referred to ', but that ' has been already divided into two kinds, and this construction would restrict the name to one of them, namely that ' as opposed to that .  . We have no term which at all approximates to the meaning of this word, much less will our language admit of the play upon it which connects it with .  . Meaning, of course, all those which relate to Moral Action. ' is equivalent to ', ', ', and  (in the new sense here given to it). The faculty which guides us truly in all matters of Moral Action is , i.e. Reason directed by Goodness or Goodness informed by Reason. But just as every faculty of body and soul is not actually in operation at the same time, though the Man is acting, so proper names are given to the various Functions of Practical Wisdom. Is the  forming plans to attain some particular End? he is then —is he passing under review the suggestions of others? he is —is he judging of the acts of others? he admits  to temper the strictness of justness—is he applying general Rules to particular cases? he is exercising ' or '—while in each and all he is .  . See note, on p. 140.  . There are cases where we must simply accept or reject without proof: either when Principles are propounded which are prior to all reasoning, or when particular facts are brought before us which are simply matters of . Aristotle here brings both these cases within the province of , i.e. he calls by this name the Faculty which attains Truth in each.  . i.e. of the .  . See the note on  on p. 4, l. 30. As a matter of fact and mental experience the Major Premiss of the Practical Syllogism is wrought into the mind by repeatedly acting upon the Minor Premiss (i.e. by ). All that is pleasant is to be done. This is pleasant, .·. This is to be done. By habitually acting on the Minor Premiss. i.e. on the suggestions of ', a man comes really to hold the Major Premiss; Aristotle says of the man destitute of all self-control that he is firmly persuaded that it is his proper line to pursue the gratification of his bodily appetites, '. And his analysis of . (the state of progress towards this utter abandonment to passion) shows that each case of previous good resolution succumbing to temptation is attributable to  suggesting its own Minor Premiss in place of the right one. Book 8 and 5.

