Whether consent is an act of the appetitive or of the apprehensive power?

❌ Objection 1 : It would seem that consent belongs only to the apprehensive part of the soul. For Augustine (De Trin. xii, 12) ascribes consent to the higher reason. But the reason is an apprehensive power. Therefore consent belongs to an apprehensive power.

❌ Objection 2 : Further, consent is "co-sense." But sense is an apprehensive power. Therefore consent is the act of an apprehensive power.

❌ Objection 3 : Further, just as assent is an application of the intellect to something, so is consent. But assent belongs to the intellect, which is an apprehensive power. Therefore consent also belongs to an apprehensive power.