A Thomistic Take on Emotional Tumult | Sister Anna Wray, O.P.
The Thomistic Institute
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The Motion of Appetite
Thomas doesn't believe that we need separate appetites to draw us toward good things and to drive us away from bad things. As such, our appetite for good is sufficient to repulse us from the absence of that good. Thomas distinguishes between appetite itself and its movements. Appetite is the power to incline us toward the apparent good and away from apparent evil. In emotion is the exercise of that power. That's to say, the actual experience of being inclined.
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