Soul: Kinds, Nature and Powers

Psychic Powers – The nature and powers of various kinds of souls

(adapted from notes by A. Moreno, O.P. and M. Dodds, O.P.)

• Vegetative soul.
• Sensitive soul.
  • The functions proper to animals.
  • The nature of the sensitive soul.
• Sensitive powers
  • Cognition in General.
    • The nature of cognition.
    • The union involved in knowledge.
    • The foundation of knowledge: immateriality.
    • The impressed and expressed species in the process of cognition.
    • Specific cognitive powers
    1. External sense cognition.
       • Objects of the external senses.
       • Veracity of the external senses.
       • Sensation and the composite.
       • Perception and sensation.
    2. Internal senses.
       1. The central sense (common sense)
          • Nature of the common sense.
          • Functions of the common sense.
       2. The imaginative power
          • Nature of the imagination.
          • Functions of the imagination.
       3. The estimative sense.
          • Nature of the estimative sense.
          • Functions of the cogitative power.
       4. The memorative sense.
          • Nature of the memorative sense.
          • Functions of the memorative sense.
  • Appetite in General.
    • Natural and elicited appetite.
    • The existence of appetite.
    • Knowledge and appetite compared.
    • Formal ratio of the appetite.
    • Specific sense appetitive powers – passions
      • Concupiscible appetites
      • Irascible appetites
• Rational soul
  1. 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
  2. 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.

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