By Nasir ed-Din Tusi (auth.); Wickens G.M. (trans.)
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Likewise in respect of the irascible faculty: if Man relate himself to the least wild animal in that respect, the latter takes precedence over him. Man's virtue passes from potency to act only D 50 THE NASIREAN ETHICS when he cleanses his soul from such monstrous vices, such ruinous defects; for the physician, so long as he removes not the sickness, can hold no hope of health; and the dyer, so long as he cannot find the garment free of the marks of filth and grease, will not deem it receptive of the colour intended.
213& God protect us from that by His favour ·and mercy! This is an exposition of the perfection and deficiency of the soul adequate for this place. In God is a fortunate issue. SIXTH SECTION SHOWING WHEREIN THE PERFECTION OF THE HUMAN SOUL LIES AND THE REFUTATION OF THOSE WHO HAVE OPPOSED THE TRUTH ON THIS SCORE From the previous Section it has become obvious that the human soul has a perfection and a defect, and an account of that perfection has already been given in summary fashion. It has now become necessary to expatiate on that perfection in detail, so that once men become aware of its true nature, they will not grudge expending their supremest effort in quest of it.
32 This is not speech in act, for the dumb man also possesses this notion,197 though not speech in act: rather does this notionl97 signify the faculty of perceiving intelligibles and the power of distinction and reason,l4I by which one discriminates between fair and foul, reprehensible and praiseworthy, and disposes of them according to the will. It is on account of this faculty that Man's actions are divided into good and bad, and fair and foul, and that he is characterized by felicity or affliction, as against the other animals and the plants.