Lectures on Scholastic Philosophy

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LOGIC. THE FIRST PART. On the Efficient Cause of the Rational Order. Lecture III.?The Efficient Cause Of The ' Rational Order. The Efficient Cause of the Rational Order is Man, and we must here give a short general notion of what man is, for this is a necessary introduction to what we have to say in Logic....
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LOGIC. THE FIRST PART. On the Efficient Cause of the Rational Order. Lecture III.?The Efficient Cause Of The ' Rational Order. The Efficient Cause of the Rational Order is Man, and we must here give a short general notion of what man is, for this is a necessary introduction to what we have to say in Logic. Man is defined a rational animal: he is a complete substance, composed of two incomplete substances, the one of which is matter, while the other is the soul. Man is a miniature of the world, for he partakes in the nature of all other beings. The principle of all activity in a man is the human soul which informs his body; it is the principle alike of his vegetable life, his sensitive life, and his intellectual life. Man being a substance which enjoys vegetable life, we find in him the faculties which we find less perfectly in plants. Thus we have in him nutrition, growth, and generation. Man being a substance which enjoys sensitive life, we find in him the faculties which we find in brutes. Thus man possesses the same cognitive power as brutes, and accordingly he has the five senses, sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch, with which he renders external bodily objects present to himself; or, to use a better phrase, by means of which all bodily substances join themselves to man in various ways, and thus bring home to him his own knowledge. In addition to the five external senses, man is furnished with an interior sense, sensus intimus, by which he feels the modifications of his external senses and those which are undergone internally by his own organism; and thus he obtains matter for the formation of those phantasms by which the cognition of animals is completed. In man, considered as a mere animal, there is a sensible appetitive faculty corresponding to...