The Human Person. A Beginner’s Thomistic Psychology

295 Pages·2018·9.079 MB·English

by  Steven J. Jensen

The Human Person

The Human Person
A Beginner’s Thomistic Psychology
Steven J. Jensen

The Catholic University of America Press

Washington, D.C.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Jensen, Steven J., 1964– author.
Title: The human person : a beginner's Thomistic psychology /
Steven J. Jensen.
Description: Washington, D.C. : The Catholic University of America
Press, [2018] | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018022376 | ISBN 9780813231525 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?–1274. | Theological
anthropology. | Human beings.
Classification: LCC B765.T54 J465 2018 | DDC 128.092—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018022376
For
Rachel,
Sam,
and Sarah
Studium philosophiae non est ad hoc quod
sciatur quid homines senserint, sed qualiter se
habeat veritas rerum.
Thomas Aquinas, De caelo et mundo, I, 22
In memoriam
Thomas E. Jensen
1929–2014
Ad perfectam beatitudinem requiritur quod
intellectus pertingat ad ipsam essentiam primae
causae. Et sic perfectionem suam habebit per
unionem ad Deum sicut ad obiectum, in quo
solo beatitudo hominis consistit.
Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologiae, I-II, 3, 8

Contents
Contents
Contents
List of Figures and Tables, ix
Acknowledgments, xi
List of Abbreviations, xiii
1. Introduction, 1
2. Sensation, 8
3. Skepticism, 24
4. Internal Senses, 45
5. The Emotions, 64
6. Mechanism, 84
7. Materialism and Dualism, 103
8. Hylomorphism, 116
9. The Problem of Universal Knowledge, 132
1 0. Reason, 149
11. Immortality, 176
1 2. Freedom, 198
13. The Will, 220
14. Free Decision, 238
1 5. Purpose, 255
Selected Bibliography, 271
Index, 273

Figures and Tables
figure 4-1 The order of knowing and the order of being, 50
figure 5-1 Inclinations, 69
figure 5-2 Powers of the soul, 80
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table 3-1 Primary and secondary in Locke and
Aquinas, 39
table 4-1 The objects of three internal senses, 57
table 4-2 The four internal senses, 59
table 5-1 The concupiscible emotions, 72
table 5-2 Partial list of irascible emotions, 74
table 5-3 Complete list of emotions, 79
table 8-1 The composition of substances, 122
table 12-1 Three views on free will, 219
table 13-1 Acts of the will, 230
table 13-2 Acts of will with acts of intellect, 231
table 14-1 The four causes, 240
table 14-2 Necessity in the will, 243
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