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Ideas for 'Protagoras', '74: Reply to Colotes' and 'Has Philosophy Lost Contact with People?'

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20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 1. Intention to Act / c. Reducing intentions

20796	Action needs an affinity for a presentation, and an impulse toward the affinity [Plutarch]
	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.
	From: Plutarch (74: Reply to Colotes [c.85], 1122c)
	A reaction: Not much reasoning involved in this account, which the sceptics say is compatible with suspension of judgement.

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / b. Intellectualism

203	Courage is knowing what should or shouldn't be feared [Plato]
	Full Idea: Knowledge of what is and is not to be feared is courage.
	From: Plato (Protagoras [c.380 BCE], 360d)