Glenn, Psychology, 1936
Philosophical Psychology
The philosophy of mind and the soul. Sensation, intellection, the will, the immateriality of the intellect, and the immortality of the soul.
Theological counterpart: Creation & the Supernatural Order
Glenn, Psychology
26 articlesIntroduction
The name, definition, object, importance, and division of Psychology as the philosophical science of living bodies.
Part First Minor Psychology
Chapter 1 Life
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What We Mean by Life
Life known through its properties: self-movement, immanent activity, and life in first and second actuality.
The Difference Between Life and Non-Life
The essential, not merely accidental, difference between living and lifeless bodies.
The Scale of Life and of Living Bodies
The three grades of life — vegetal, sentient, and rational — as essentially different forms and degrees.
The Principle of Life
The need for a substantial life-principle, and the definition of the soul as the first act of an organic body.
Chapter 2 Vegetal Life
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The Life of Plants
Plants as genuinely living bodies possessing the lowest grade of life, and as non-sentient.
The Vegetal Operations
Nutrition, growth, and generation as the vegetal operations, and the three vegetal powers.
The Vegetal Life-Principle
The vegetal soul as the material substantial form of the plant, incomplete in substantiality and in species.
Chapter 3 Sentient Life
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The Life of Sentient Bodies
Animals as truly living and truly sentient, yet without intellect; instinct contrasted with intelligence.
The Operations of Sentient Bodies
Sensation, appetition, and locomotion as the three sentient operations, each from a distinct power.
The Sentient Life-Principle
The animal soul as the one substantial form of the animal, material, incomplete, and educed from matter.
Chapter 4 The Origin of Species
Part Second Major Psychology
Chapter 1 Human Life
Chapter 2 Human Sentiency
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Nature and Kinds of Faculties
The nature of a faculty, its real distinction from the soul, its proper subject, and the schema of human faculties.
Sensation
The nature of sensation, the sentient system, the several senses and their objects, and the sensing process.
Appetition
Sentient appetition and the concupiscible and irascible passions, all of them rooted in love.
Locomotion
Locomotion as the third sentient operation, a faculty for spontaneous local movement consequent upon knowledge.
Chapter 3 The Intellect
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Nature and Actuality of the Intellect
The intellect as a spiritual, supra-organic faculty, its several names, and the proof that man possesses it.
The Operation and Object of the Intellect
Simple apprehension, judgment, and reasoning; the adequate, proper, and indirect object of intellect.
The Origin and Expression of Ideas
The origin of ideas against Innatism, Traditionalism, and Sensism; and their outward expression in speech.
Chapter 4 The Will
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Nature and Operation of the Will
The will as rational appetency, its object the good, the proof of its existence, and its elicited and commanded acts.
The Interaction of Intellect and Will
Intellect and will as really distinct faculties, and their mutual influence as final and efficient cause.
The Freedom of the Will
The kinds of freedom, the proof of human free will, and the objections of the determinists answered.