Development of the Human Soul

	Development of the Human Soul

	Book 3 (synthetical)

	Laws governing the activity of the soul. How the different laws governing the activity of the soul take their origin from the nature of the soul

Introduction
Chapter 1		Human nature: Summary — Definition of 'human being'
Chapter 2		There are reciprocal connections or relationships between entia which are essential to them and make them what they are
Chapter 3		The essential relationships of extension and of what is extended
	Article 1	The extended element has two essential relationships: one constituting it as it is in itself; the other constituting it as term of a sensitive principle
	Article 2	Extension is one thing; the extended element another
	Article 3	The unity of extension and of the extended element comes from the simplicity of the animal-sentient principle, that is, from the soul
Chapter 4		Essential relationships of a temporary ens with the sentient principle
	Article 1	Development of the concept of time
	Article 2	Time is not found in material things
	Article 3	Time is found in simple entia which are subject to modifications. The sentient principle is such an ens
	Article 4	The unity of succession is due to the sentient principle
	Article 5	Time in the rational principle
	Article 6	Real time: real time as known: ideal time
Chapter 5		The essential relationship between feeling and idea
	Article 1	How the felt extended element and the succession of events are perceived by the intellective principle which thus takes the name 'rational principle'
	Article 2	How the animal-sentient principle is perceived intellectually
	Article 3	How we perceive intellectively. 1 the intellectual principle whose term is the idea, and 2 the rational principle
Chapter 6		The unity and hence the nature of the human being lies in the rational principle
Chapter 7		Every human activity begins from the rational principle
	Article 1	Five activities can be seen in the human world
	Article 2	The first three activities are not, properly speaking, human activities, but conditions or instruments of human activity
	Article 3	The other two activities, that of the intellective principle and the rational principle, form a single activity in human beings
Chapter 8		We have to find the explanation of the laws of human activity in the rational principle and its relationship with lesser agents
Chapter 9		The concept and possibility of operation
	Article 1	Immanent acts and transient acts
	Article 2	Different kinds of immanent acts
	Article 3	Difficulties in explaining transient acts
Chapter 10		The connection between transient and immanent acts
Chapter 11		'Corollary I' — Granted the existence of transient acts, we can demonstrate the existence of God
Chapter 12		'Corollary II' — Demonstration of creation
Chapter 13		No ens moves itself, that is, makes transient acts solely by itself; it needs the concourse of something different from itself
Chapter 14		Different natural agents, and their different way of operating First, the action attributed to bodies
Chapter 15		'Continuation' — The action of the sentient principle and the origin of its transient acts
Chapter 16		'Continuation' — The action of the rational principle and of its transient acts
Chapter 17		The subject of the following two books

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