Appetite
idea · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
appetite · shahwah · الشهوة · al-quwwah al-shahwānīyah · al-shahwah · appetitive works · shahwānī · الاعمال الشهوانية · القوة الشهوانية
in the texts
Risālah fī ʻilm al-akhlāq
Intensified desire for bodily agreeables, the first of the enumerated diseases of the soul.
So appetite arises, which is the intense willing of what agrees with the body, namely the sensibly pleasurable — food, drink, sexual union, clothing, mounts, and the likes of these among bodily pleasures.
Kitāb al-Safīnah al-Nūḥīyah fī al-sakīnah al-rūḥīyah
Shahwah, appetitive desire, the motive of the bestial soul, denied of celestial souls, and the hindrance that ascetic discipline replaces with worship.
they did affirm an animal soul whose work is the attaining of immediate aims, but by way of assimilation, not by way of appetite;
its work is the growing already mentioned, together with voluntary motion in the attaining of immediate aims, and likewise by the satisfying of appetite and the repelling of pain — not for a loftier perfection or the benefit of a hope.
and thereafter appetitive works are exchanged for human acts of worship, and it becomes the soul of a worshipper.
Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah
The appetitive power, defined as the psychic state of attraction to the beneficial, and figured as cook, enemy and mount in the similitudes.
Anger is a psychic state (*ḥāl nafsānīyah*) by which harms are repelled, and appetite is a psychic state by which what is beneficial is drawn toward that which suits it.
the soul is like the king, the intellect is his vizier who attends to his benefits, the appetitive faculty is the preparer of his food, and the irascible is the keeper of his house.
And choice [19], if it be an attracting, is appetitive, and if a repelling, is irascible (2).