Essence of the Human Soul

	Psychology

	Part One - Essence of the Human Soul
	Book 3 - The union and mutual influence of soul and body
	Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1				The sensitive soul is united with the body by means of feeling
Chapter 2				The union of rational soul with body comes about by means of an immanent perception of animal feeling
	Article 1			Rational activity contains sensitive activity
	Article 2			Rational activity contains sensitive activity in a way proper to itself
	Article 3			It follows that the rational principle is united to the body through immanent perception of the animal feeling
	Article 4			Distinction between the individual, fundamental feeling which constitutes the human being and the primal perception of the animal feeling where the nexus between soul and body is located
Chapter 3				The nature of the first perception by which the rational principle constantly perceives its own animal-fundamental feeling and thus unites itself to the body
Chapter 4				How philosophical meditation, in analysing the animal feeling perceived by the soul, distinguishes the subjective body and recognises it as having the same nature as extrasubjective bodies
Chapter 5				Concerning Averroes' opinion that the body is united to the rational soul by means of the intelligible species
Chapter 6				Descartes' teaching that thinking is essential to the human being
Chapter 7				The activity and passivity of the soul relative to the body to which it is united
	Article 1			The relationship between formal and efficient cause
	Article 2			How the nexus between soul and body by means of the primal perception explains the activity and passivity of the rational soul relative to the body it informs
	Article 3			The activity of the rational soul on the extrasubjective body
	Article 4			Can the rational soul cause animal movement harmful to the animal?
Chapter 8				Can the pure intellect act effectively on the body?
Chapter 9				The efficacy of the acts of the rational principle on the body
	Article 1			General extension of this efficacy
	Article 2			Efficacy of the special acts of the rational principle
		§1		How the body is changed by the rational principle through acts of intelligence
			A	Perceptions, and an explanation of their spontaneity
			B	Imagination
			C	Memories
			D	Rational feelings
		§2		How the body is changed by the rational principle through acts of the will
Chapter 10				The conditions necessary for the rational principle if it is to produce the movements it wishes in its own body
Chapter 11				Propagation of the movement stimulated by the rational principle and beginning in the body; the parts to which it spreads
	Article 1			Summary - Voluntary and involuntary nerves and muscles
	Article 2			Parts of the body where movements stimulated by the rational principle begin
	Article 3			Continuation - Location of movements stimulated by the rational instinct and by the will - The double nervous system
Chapter 12				Causes of the errors of the animistic school
	Article 1			First cause
	Article 2			Second cause
	Article 3			Third cause
	Article 4			Fourth cause
Chapter 13				The soul's activity on the extrasubjective body

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