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Full Idea
The function of practical intellect is to arrive at the truth that corresponds to right appetite.
Gist of Idea
Practical intellect serves to arrive at the truth which corresponds to right appetite
Source
Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics [c.334 BCE], 1139a28)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'Ethics (Nicomachean)', ed/tr. ThomsonJ A K/TredennickH [Penguin 1976], p.205
A Reaction
And right appetite may well have to be educated by theoretical intellect.