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We must discover, then, which is the best state of each of these,

because that will be the Excellence of each; and this again is

relative to the work each has to do.[4]

There are in the Soul three functions on which depend moral

action and truth; Sense, Intellect, Appetition, whether vague

Desire or definite Will. Now of these Sense is the originating

cause of no moral action, as is seen from the fact that brutes

have Sense but are in no way partakers of moral action.[5]

[Intellect and Will are thus connected,] what in the Intellectual

operation is Affirmation and Negation that in the Will is Pursuit

and Avoidance, And so, since Moral Virtue is a State apt to

exercise Moral Choice and Moral Choice is Will consequent on

deliberation, the Reason must be true and the Will right, to

constitute good Moral Choice, and what the Reason affirms the

Will must pursue.[6]