A Thomistic Take on Emotional Tumult | Sister Anna Wray, O.P.
The Thomistic Institute
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The Cogitated Power and the Cogitative Power
It's easy to identify disproportionate emotions in our experience, but it's not so easy to identify the cause of this disproportionate. Thomas: We know that an emotion is determined by its intentional object. He says we really need to consider what powers are involved in the formation of intentional objects. The cogitated power gives us an immediate evaluation of the goodness or badness of a present image.
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