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Single Idea 20796

[from '74: Reply to Colotes' by Plutarch, in 20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 1. Intention to Act / c. Reducing intentions ]

Full Idea

The sceptics say there are three movements of the soul: presentation, impulse and assent. …And action requires two things: a presentation of something to which one has an affinity, and an impulse toward what is presented as an object of affinity.

Gist of Idea

Action needs an affinity for a presentation, and an impulse toward the affinity

Source

Plutarch (74: Reply to Colotes [c.85], 1122c)

Book Reference

'The Stoics Reader', ed/tr. Inwood,B/Gerson,L.P. [Hackett 2008], p.37


A Reaction

Not much reasoning involved in this account, which the sceptics say is compatible with suspension of judgement.