Psychology

1. The definition of philosophical psychology.
2. The concept of the soul in the pre-Socratics, the sophists, Socrates, and Plato.
3. The nature of the soul in Aristotle's On the Soul.
4. The nature of the human being in St. Thomas Aquinas.
   1. The essence of the soul and its union with the body.
   2. The powers of the soul and its operations.
   3. The vegetative powers: nutrition, growth, reproduction.
   4. The sensitive powers: cognitive powers and sensitive appetite.
   5. The intellectual powers: intellect and will.
   6. Operations proper to the cognitive and appetitive powers:
      1. intellectual acts;
      2. passions.
5. Special questions.

• ARISTOTLE, De anima.
• THOMAS AQUINAS, Summa theologiæ, I, quæstiones 75-83; I-II, quæstiones 22-48.
• R. E. BRENNAN,
  • Thomistic psychology. New York, 1956.
  • General psychology. New York, 1952.
• J. F. DONCELL, Philosophical Psychology, London, 1955.
• Anthony KENNY, Aquinas on Mind, London, 1996.
• R. PASNAU, Thomas Aquinas on Human Nature, Cambridge, 2002.
• R. VERNEUX, Philosophie de l'homme. Paris, 1956.

First semester: FE 1007.
Second semester: FE 2013.

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Last revised: 7.7.2007.