In Christian theological history, reflecting on the relationship between intellect and will is an ongoing process. Roughly speaking, in Medieval Christianity, two concepts were employed to clarify will: intellectualism defended primary role of intellect, voluntarism promoted human as decisive. These represented respectively by Aquinas Duns Scotus. After presenting these interpretive frameworks,...

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In some passages of the Opus maius and tertium, Roger Bacon holds that mathematical objects are immediate adequate human’s intellect: in our sensible life, intellect develops mostly around quantity itself. We comprehend quantities bodies by a perception because their forms belong to intellect, namely, an understanding truths is almost innate within us. A natural reaction these sentences deduce ...

The Iowa gambling task (IGT) was designed to assess clinically relevant decision-making impairment, yet some studies find high rates of failure in otherwise healthy control groups. The current study examined variables potentially related to IGT failure, including negative affect, intellect, personality, and executive functioning, in a well-screened sample of healthy young adults. In addition, c...