Theology

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Theology Psychology

• Cognitive Faculties
• Class 4

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Faculties

• Vegetative
• Sensitive
• Appetitive
• Locomotive
• Intellectual

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Five Senses

• Part of knowing faculties
• Passive potencies acted upon by object which
  moves them
• Cannot judge (they lack self reflection)
• Touch, taste, smell, hearing sight

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Senses, Objects Mediums
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Passive Intellect

• The Material part of the intellect of man which
  includes
• The common sense power
• Memory
• Imagination
• Cogitative power

Four Interior Senses
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Spiritual Powers

• Intellect- to know the truth

Will- to love the good

• Material powers

Passions Love, HateFear, DaringHope,
DespairPleasure, PainJoy, SadnessAnger
Cognitive
Internal Sense Memory Imagination Common
sense Cogitative power
External Senses Sight, Touch, Taste, Hearing,
Smell
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Passive Intellect The 4 Powers

• Common Sense
• Grasps what is seen, heard smelt as one thing
• Imagination
• Retains impressions made on external senses long
  after stimulation has ceased
• Memory
• Associates objects of sense perception with past
  time
• Cogitative Sense
• Collates sense impression achieves judgments
  that are concrete and individual

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Memory

• Faculty itself
• Retains species
• Recalls
• for operation of imagination cogitative
• Is a habit-can be increased trained
• Effected by
• age
• suffering of the passions or emotions
• chemical variances in bodily organ
• physical actions upon the organ

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Mans Memory vs. Animal

• Faculty has both spiritual and material elements
• Capable of confirming or affirming by thinking or
  meditating
• I.e. can maintain by thought
• Open to reminiscence
• Acted upon by rational judgment
• Capacity to be false

• Only material elements
• Only as a result of exterior sensation
• No reminiscence
• No relationship to rational judgment
• No capacity to be false

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Memory Forgetfulness

• Forgetfulness
• Incapacity to recall previously stored species
• Causes
• Time
• Passion
• Physical damage
• Memory
• corrupts knowledge which confuses

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Reminiscence

• A syllogism inquiring into memory of the past
  according to individual intentions
• I.e. re-finding what was received but not
  retained
• reconstruction

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Reconstruction

• Similar notion
• Contrary notion
• Things close to something

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Causes of false reminiscence

• Interior
• passion
• bodily disposition
• habits and virtues

• Exterior
• false memory
• (constitute erroneous principles)
• flawed process of reminiscence
• way contrary to accustomed way
• e.g. someone draws the process in the wrong
  direction

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Imagination

• Power itself operation
• Relation to other powers
• Effects caused by imagination
• General
• Forming a new image

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Operation

• Maintains presence of image

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Relation to other powers

• Makes it possible to know
• Makes it possible to continually use knowledge
• From it agent intellect abstracts concept
• Affected by the disposition of the bodily organs
• Presents images to the will
• Memory can cause previous images to be present
• Instinct is moved by something in the imagination
• Appetites are moved by image

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Effects caused by imagination

• Body is moved by the imagination
• Natural principle of local motion
• Will acts on imagination which in turn moves the
  limbs
• Imagination acts a guide to other powers which
  actually move the individual
• Dispositional changes in the body caused by what
  is imagined
• Unreflected bodily actions
• Cogitative power may perceive some harm prior to
  judgment of reason thus locomotive powers react

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Effects of Imagination

• Can effect an organ of sensation
• Not true sensation
• False interpretation on side of individual who
  thinks there is something outside of him, when in
  fact it has proceeded from the imagination
  causing a change in the bodily organ.
• Vehemence in imagination makes someone think he
  sees or hears something that is not there

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General

• Can imagine future
• Speech flows from imagination
• Distractions forget what is being said

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Forming a new image

• Efficient causes of a phantasm
• the primary efficient cause which are the senses,
• the memory
• the cogitative power
• the possible intellect
• (presupposing the act of use on the side of the
  will).

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Intellect cause of image

• Not only can the intellect be the formal cause of
  the image, but
• it can also compose different sensible species in
  the imagination.
• The intellect can place two or more things
  together in the imagination which it retrieved
  from memory.
• it can also divide them,
• for that also is an act of the possible intellect
  which is able to impose its formality on the
  image in the imagination

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Modifying the image

• We can come to the understanding of something
  better by modifying the image from which we
  abstract and thereby modify our understanding.
• True understanding congrues with reality,
• the image must produce the right concept in
  abstraction.

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Intellect affects cogitative power

• The possible intellect affects the associations
  made by the cogitative power.
• the possible intellect will also sometimes form
  an image in the imagination and then move the
  cogitative power to perform acts proper to itself
  with respect to the new image adding even more to
  our understanding.

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Intellect changing image

• St. Thomas also notes that the possible intellect
  can reformulate the image thereby affect the
  motions of the appetites.
• The possible intellect can cause changes in the
  image in the various ways thereby formulate a
  phantasm which will affect the appetites
  according to its intentions.

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Cogitative Power

• Its acts
• Cogitative vs. estimative
• Observations

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Cogitative Power 3 Acts

• Highest power
• Concerns only particulars

• Composition Division
• Assesses harmfulness, goodness or usefulness of
  some thing
• Prepares the phantasm for abstraction

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Composes divides intentions

• Physical or natural judgment
• i.e. places two things side by side and compares
  them

Primary Function
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Assessment of harm, good, use

• Assessment of harmfulness, goodness or usefulness
  of some thing
• Concerns intentions
• Sensible species
• Capacity to ascertain whether a given sensible
  species is harmful or suitable

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Prepares the phantasm for abstraction

• Prepares phantasms so that by the agent intellect
  the intelligibles the performances of the
  possible intellect are made in act.

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Cogitative power vs. Estimative

• Proceeds by inquiring conferring
• Prepares phantasm for abstraction
• Can consider the individual under some common
  notion, not as universal but this individual
• Capacity to engage object impartially

• Proceeds by instinct
• W/O immaterial faculties this is completely
  missing
• Ordered to action or passion does not consider
  thing as individual but in terminus of their
  action or passion
• Cannot engage impartially

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Cogitative Power

• Effected by Dispositions
• Good or bad
• General capacity based upon dispositions
• Capable of habituation-can be trained
• Possible intellect directs cogitative power
• Pivotal for prudence election

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Intellect Judgment
Will
Imagination
Common Sense
Phantasm
Cogitative Power
Memory
Sight, Hearing Smell, Taste Touch
Appetites