Development of the Human Soul |
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| Book 1 (analytical) |
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| Activities of the human soul - how the different activities are distinguished from the essence of the soul. |
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| Contents |
| Different human activities cannot be deduced without some understanding of the essence of the soul |
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| The origin of the ontological notions of matter and form, of potency and act |
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| Origin of the notion of first matter |
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Reasoning teaches us to distinguish between body and corporeal principle |
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The perception of body furnishes three different entities: the felt, the sensiferous and the foreign force |
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The difference between the soul, the sensiferous element and the foreign force |
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Body is an extended agent; the corporeal principle can be an unextended agent |
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Identity of substance between the sensiferous element and the foreign force |
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How the sensiferous element and brute force clothe themselves in what is felt |
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How philosophers are right to deny second qualities to bodies, and how common sense is right in attributing them to bodies |
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Origin of the concept of material substance |
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How extension pertains to the primary qualities of body |
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Origin of the concept of first matter |
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The concept of first matter |
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| The concept of form |
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| How the words 'matter' and 'first matter' were used equivocally by the greatest philosophers |
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Some philosophers confused reality with first matter |
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By using the second method of abstraction (hypothetical abstraction), some philosophers made matter an immaterial ens |
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Is first matter inert? |
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| The intimate union of spirit and matter |
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| The human soul is devoid of all matter |
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Demonstration |
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The soul is a principle-ens and matter a term-ens |
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| The intrinsic order of being in corporeal entity - The concept of act - Substantial and accidental acts |
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| Substance-principle, substance-term and mixed substance |
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| The sense in which the soul can be considered as a mixed substance, comprising principle and term |
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| Is 'substance' distinguished from 'substantial form' in the soul? |
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| Act and potency |
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The nature of act |
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The nature of potency |
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Receptive, active and passive potencies |
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Principle-entia and term-entia considered as potencies |
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| Act and potency are present in the human soul |
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| How accidental acts are contained in the essence of the human soul |
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Preliminary remarks |
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Cohesion amongst the substances which make up the universe - their classification from this point of view |
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Explanation of the origin of the accidental acts of substances |
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Application to the acts of the soul |
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| How potencies are contained in the soul |
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| The distinction between the potentiality and the essence of the soul |
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| The nature of habits, and how they are contained in the essence of the soul |
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The nature of habit |
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Double meaning of 'habit' |
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Habits of potencies have primarily the same division as potencies |
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The origin of habits |
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Multiple habits do not prejudice the unity of the soul |
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| Is the soul the subject of all its potencies? |
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