Voluntary motion
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
al-ḥarakah al-ikhtiyāriyah · moving · moving by will · voluntary motion · التحرك بالارادة · الحركة الأختيارية · متحرك
in the texts
Kitāb al-Safīnah al-Nūḥīyah fī al-sakīnah al-rūḥīyah
Al-ḥarakah al-ikhtiyāriyah, self-initiated motion toward chosen ends, the functional mark distinguishing animal from plant soul and carried up into the rational soul.
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.
its work is the growing already mentioned and the voluntary motion described, with the addition of one thing, namely the attaining of perfection and the aiming at the good.
Kitāb mīzān al-ḥaqq fī al-manṭiq
Self-willed motion, the attribute that distinguishes animals and whose qualification by will carries a pointed implication about those who act by another's will
A nicety — since the logicians qualified the attribute (moving) with the condition (by will), there drop out those whose movements and all of whose deeds follow the will of another
as when we take from the horse those attributes of hers that distinguish her from plants and minerals — such as her sensing and her moving by her own will — and leave aside the other attributes that belong to her;
The common accident is any attribute among the attributes of the thing sought (*maṭlūb*) which is predicated of it and of what is of an essence other than its own essence, such as moving by will in relation to man, for it is predicated of him and of other animals besides him