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Psychology Man possess everything 1. Rational Powers - common w/ spirits - intellect - will 2.

Sense Powers - Sense Knowledge - is the intentional / psychological possession of the form of another - any perfection of quality 1. Accidental Form 2. Abstract Form - Locomotion - Sense desires

uses instinct

3. Vegetative Powers - Reproduction - Growth - Nutrients 4. The body of Man possesses minerals ________________________________________________________________ Kinds of Sense Knowledge 1. External Sense - have external organ / powers of the soul. (Knowing powers) ex. sight, hearing, smell, touch, taste 2. Internal Sense - have internal organ (Brain) a. Common Sense Unifies the sensible to form PERCEPT

External Sense Sight Hearing Smell Taste Touch

Sensible Forms Color Sound Odor Flavor Texture

b. Imagination Copies the percept - The product is phantasm (copied percept) (through abstraction) we derive IDEA Disorders of Imagination 1. Illusion a. Sense Illusion - used by magicians b. Imaginary - there is reality but the imagination adds something 2. Hallucination - there is nothing but you see something c. Memory Associate the phantasm to one's personal knowledge / experience Disorders of memory Amnesia = memory loss ~ pass Hypermnesia = to remember what should not be remembered ~ pass as present Paramnesia = to remember when there is nothing to remember ~ future as pass Loss of Memory A. Primary laws of Association - could explain why we remember 1. Law of Similarity - when your experience now connects you to a previous experience because of their similarity 2. Law of Contrast - reminds you of the opposite 3. Law of Propinquity - one thing is somehow connected to another B. Secondary laws of Association - could explain why we don't forget 1. Law of Vividness - all senses are involve 2. Law of Frequency - repetition

3. Law of Recentness - more recent, more remembered d. Estimative Sense Cognizes what is useful or harmful to the animal w/o previous experience Elements of Knowledge 1. The Knower 2. The Thing Known 3. The Act of Knowing ~ If there is one absent, there's no knowledge Axioms of Knowledge 1. The knower & the thing known become ONE 2. A thing is known according to the manner of the knower 3. Immateriality - is the root of knowledge (through Abstraction) = separation from matter

________________________________________________________________ Emotions - follows the senses 1. Concupiscible - pleasant good - easy to avoid evil Love - Hatered Joy - Sadness Desire - Aversion 2. Irasible - ardous good - difficult to avoid evil - difficult to possess Courage Fear Hope Despair Anger Love is the cause of all emotion the result of love is ecstasy

Effect of Love to the Lover 1. Desire for union ~ Desire 2. Mutual in dwelling Lover Beloved want to beloved in return ~ Hope 3. Zeal - perseverance or determination ~ Courage 4. Ecstasy - you like to be in the presence of the beloved ~ joy Cause of Love 1. Goodness = general cause of love - known Good Form as something good that can perfect the lover - that thing possesses what you lack Universal Goodness 1. Physical Goodness - Complete body parts / proportion of body length 2. Intellectual Goodness 3. Moral Values / Integrity 4. Social Graces / Etiquette 5. Economic Status 2. Similarity = specifically the cause of love Similarity between the ideal good of the lover and the object outside the lover ________________________________________________________________ Instinct = an unmodifiable, non- rational - no reason to react instantly reaction of an animal towards what is useful or harmful to it for the presentation of the species

ex. to play, to lead, curiosity

Element of Instincts: 1. Estimative Sense 2. Emotions 3. Motor Reaction / Reflexes Kinds of Instinct 1. Parental Instinct - to be attracted to opposite sex - to preserve the species ~ purpose is to procreate 2. Social Instinct - tendency of an animal to be w/ the species 3. Individual Instinct - tendency of an animal / man to preserve itself first. 4. Regulative Instinct - tendency of animals to control / manipulate its own life - to do good and avoid evil

Will - is an intellectual appetite - follows the intellect

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