Soul

Philosophical Psychology (Study of Soul)

Body and Soul

Dualism from Questions

Soul: Kinds, Nature and Powers

• Vegetative soul.
• Sensitive soul.
• Knowledge in General
• Sense Knowledge (Sensitive Cognitive Powers)
  • External senses.
  • Internal senses.
    • The central sense (common sense)
    • The imaginative power
    • The estimative sense.
    • The memorative sense.
• Rational Knowledge (Intellect)
  • What is unique and distinctive of human beings.
  • Object of the Intellect: Material Object, Common Formal Object, and Proper Formal Object, Singular Material Objects, Suprasensible Reality
  • Acts of the Intellect: Simple Apprehension, Judgment, Reasoning
  • Abstraction: Phantasm, Agent Intellect, Potential (Possible) Intellect, Intellectual Memory
  • Spiritual Nature of the Human Soul
• Appetite in General
• Sense appetites – passions
  • Nature of Sense Appetite
  • Division of the Passions
    • Concupiscible: Inclination toward/away from simple goods/evils
    • Irascible: Inclinations toward/away from difficult absent goods or threatening evils
• Rational Appetite (Will)
  • The Existence of the Will
  • The Distinction between Will and Intellect
  • The Object of the Will
  • Acts of the Will (see also Voluntary Action in Ethics)
  • Freedom of the Will (see also Freedom of the Will in Ethics)
  • Influence of the Will upon the Passions and of the Passions on the Will.

Identity of Knower and Known

Women from Questions

Resurrected Bodies and Angels from Questions

Robots from Questions