The intellect or reason rules the sensitive appetite through a politic or royal rule which is as a rule over free subjects who can resist commands given them?

3. The soul rules the body and the irascible and concupiscible appetites by a despotic rule, since neither members of the body nor the appetites can in any way resist the command of the soul or act otherwise than as commanded.

4. Sense appetite is found in all things, those that have knowledge as well as those that lack knowledge?

5. In natural things, such as stones and fire, is found a natural inclination that follows upon their forms, such that stones tend to remain on the ground and fire to rise and spread.

6. In things that have knowledge, such as plants and stones, sense appetite is found in addition to the natural inclination following upon their forms.

7. Being a higher inclination, sense appetite follows upon sense apprehension and allows the animal to desire the sensed object.

8. In knowing an object through the senses, the animal must desire to acquire the object because of the movement of its sense appetite.

9. Love and hate are foundational passions that give rise to other passions and thus are the strongest of the passions.

10. The proper object of the concupiscible appetite is the difficult good or evil such that an obstacle needs to be overcome to acquire what is desirable or avoid what is harmful.