Si deinde ad impulsus innatos et ad animi affectus spectamus, paternitas conscia necessariam declarat dominationem, quam ratio et voluntas in eosdem exerceant necesse est.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- When considering natural impulses, conscious fatherhood requires reason and will to govern them.
- In plain terms
- Fatherhood needs conscious control over natural desires using reason.
- What can you take from it?
- Fatherhood requires governing impulses with reason.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How should parents manage impulses?
- Is instinct or reason more important?
Another view
It presumes reason should always dominate impulse.
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