Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas·Ideas

    Caprice

    idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages

    caprice · hawā · the caprices · الاهواء · الهوى

    in the texts

    Risālah fī ʻilm al-akhlāqMedieval · Arabic

    Hawā, the appetitive inclination that reason must subdue.

    And the cause of all good whatsoever is the intellect's mastery over caprice.
    ch. 3 · printed page 39
    And seize of the good what you have hastened to, and of the caprices what you have put off.
    ch. 3 · printed page 51

    al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāqMedieval · Arabic

    Whim or passion, the principle whose marks must be erased for intellect to rule.

    that held it certain that the effacing of the marks of caprice upon it is a duty, and the establishing of what the marks of intellect and good sense require of it is binding;
    the publisher's introduction · printed page 10
    Wouldst thou make the intellect the prince of caprice — when it is over caprice that the intellect is prince?
    the publisher's introduction · printed page 10