The reasoning part, it should be understood,
naturally bears rule over that which is void of reason. For the
faculties of the soul are divided into that which has reason, and that
which is without reason. Again, of that which is without reason
there are two divisions: that which does not listen to reason,
that is to say, is disobedient to reason, and that which listens and
obeys reason. That which does not listen or obey reason is the
vital or pulsating faculty, and the spermatic or generative faculty,
and the vegetative or nutritive faculty: to this belong also the
faculties of growth and bodily formation. For these are not under
the dominion of reason but under that of nature. That which
listens to and obeys reason, on the other hand is divided into anger
and desire. And the unreasoning part of the soul is called in
common the pathetic and the appetitive παθητικὸν
καὶ
ὀρεκτικόν.. Further, it is to be understood,
that impulsive movement ἡ καθ᾽ ὁρμὴν
κίνησις. likewise
belongs to the part that is obedient to reason.