Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Beginning to write essay.

The way I have it planned so far is to start with the context - appropriate setting in the Summa and then appropriate prologues.
Prologue of 75 (having cnsdrd sprtl and cprl - hmn being - spritla and corp sbstnc. 1 nature 2) production. Natr of hmn bng prtns to thlgn on part of the soul - not on prt of hte body unls. acc. to habt which body has to hte soul - versabitur.
3 things found in sprtl sbstncs - essnc, vrtu, oprtn.
1 - 2fold - soul's relation to the body.

Question 84 is the first moment in the Prima Pars where Aquinas begins to speak about the actions of the human being as a knower - the knowing activities. Following the order that X - it goes in order of essence, power, and operation. Leaving the will aside because X, Aquinas focuses on
OPERATIONS: We consider the will in the second part of this work, which deals with morals. Here we treat of the acts of the intellect. How the soul, when united to the body, understands corporeal things beneath it: Specifically, through what (84) does it know them? How (85) does it know them? What (86) does it know in them? When united to the body, how does the soul know itself (87)? When united to the body, how does it know immaterial substances (88) which are above it? And how does the soul understand when separated from the body (89)?
Our question here focuses specifically on question 84 (for what reasons?) through what (check the Latin) does the human being know corporeal things? This is a very fundamental epistemological question. THe human being must know X because of X.
Something that must strike immediately is the order of the human being's X.

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