APPETITIVE • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Appetitive

... Since the true is the good of the intellect, but not of the appetitive power, it follows that all virtues which perfect the intellect, exclude the false altogether, because it belongs to the nature of a virtue to bear relation to the good alone. On the other hand those virtues which perfect ...

— Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) • Thomas Aquinas

... must first understand the sources of error. Of these there are two, or, more exactly, five—as many as there are faculties of the soul. Error may spring from either the cognitive or the appetitive faculty; in the first case, either from sense-perception, the imagination, or the pure understanding, and, in the latter, from the inclinations or the passions. The inclinations and the passions do not reveal the nature of things, but only express how they affect us, ...

— History Of Modern Philosophy - From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time • Richard Falckenberg