Note 142 — Chapter XXXII · PHILEBUS. (continued 2)

We read in Campbell’s Philosophy of Rhetoric (Book i. ch. 7, pp. 168-170) some very good remarks on the erroneous and equivocal assertions which identify Truth and Good — a thesis on which various Platonists have expended much eloquence. Dr. Campbell maintains the just distinction between the Emotions and Will on one side, and the Understanding on the other.

“Passion” (he says) “is the mover to action, Reason is the guide. Good is the object of the Will; Truth the object of the Understanding.”