Aquinas on Mind

Sir Anthony Kenny, Anthony Kenny

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN: 9781134829743
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Philosophy History & Theory

This book shows how the mature writings of Thomas Aquinas though written in the thirteenth century have much to offer the human mind and the relationship between intellect and will, body and soul.

Index

• abilities 155–9
• abstraction 92, 101–10
• accident 23, 133
• actuality 23–5, 53, 120
• actus 85
• actus eliciti 83–4, 86
• actus imperati 83, 86
• aestimativa 37
• affirmation 48–9
• agent intellect 43, 46–7, 51–2, 93, 126, 147–9
• Ambrose St 21
• analytic philosophy 18–19
• analyticity 4
• Andersen, Hans Christian 157
• angels 27, 42, 98, 125–6, 158
• anima 129, 152
• animals 16, 31, 36–7, 51, 81–3
• Anscombe, G.E.M. 72
• appetite 32, 59–73, 76
• appetitive powers 32, 59–73
• appetitus 59
• Aristotle 5–10, 19, 43–5, 48, 52, 62, 65, 67–8, 71–3, 75, 92–3, 155
• art 3, 9
• astronomy 111, 117
• Augustine, St 42, 75, 136
• Averroists 123–4, 153
• Avicenna 52, 111, 137
• axiomatic system 56
• Bannister, Roger 157
• beginning of the world 12
• beliefs 46, 52, 104, 122
• Berkeley, George 101
• body 25, 120, 138, 145–59
• Bonaventure, St 139
• boulesis 80
• brain 90, 95–6, 148
• change 33, 89
• Cherubino 64
• choice 68, 80
• Chomsky, Noam 47, 51
• Christianity 7, 11–12
• Church 7, 11
• coercion 67
• cogitativa 37–8
• cognitive powers 32
• cognitive science 3, 19
• commands 87
• common sensibles 35–6
• compatibilism 77
• compositio et divisio 48
• concepts 46, 52, 96–7, 104
• concrete vs abstract 133, 138, 149
• consciousness 16
• contingent 116
• conversio ad phantasmata 94–7, 103
• Copleston, Frederick 84–5
• corporeality 152
• danger 37
• De Anima 19, 43, 48, 52, 134–5
• decomposition 142
• deliberation 86–7
• Democritus 92–3
• Descartes 10, 130, 137, 139, 154
• desire 62–5
• determinism 77–9
• discriminatory powers 34, 37, 109
• disembodiment 126–...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Preface
• Abbreviation
• Why read Aquinas?
• Mind and metaphysics
• Perception and imagination
• The nature of the intellect
• Appetite and will
• The freedom of the will
• Sense, imagination and intellect
• Universals of thought
• Knowledge of particulars
• Self-knowledge
• The nature of the soul
• Mind and body
• Notes
• Further reading
• Index