Victor L. Dowdell was an instructor in classics at Nashotah House, Wisconsin, and a dean and professor of Greek at St. Michael’s Seminary, Puerto Rico.
Hans H. Rudnick is a professor of English at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.
Preface | |
Introduction | |
Introduction | p. 3 |
Anthropological Didactic | |
On Being Conscious of One's Self | p. 9 |
On Egoism | p. 10 |
On Being Arbitrarily Conscious of One's Ideas | p. 14 |
On Self-Observation | p. 15 |
On the Ideas We Have without Being Aware of Them | p. 18 |
On Distinctness and Indistinctness in Relation to the Consciousness of One's Ideas | p. 21 |
On Sensibility in Contrast to Understanding | p. 24 |
Apology for Sensibility | p. 28 |
On the Potentiality of the Cognitive Faculty | p. 32 |
On the Artificial Games Played with Sensory Perceptions | p. 35 |
On the Admissible Moral Perception | p. 37 |
On the Five Senses | p. 40 |
On the Inner Sense | p. 49 |
On the Causes of Increasing or Decreasing Sensory Perceptions According to Degree | p. 50 |
On the Decreasing, Weakening, and Entire Loss of the Faculty of the Senses | p. 54 |
On the Sensory Productive Faculty with All Its Branches | p. 64 |
Of the Faculty of Visualizing the Past and the Future by means of the Imagination | p. 73 |
On Involuntary Invention in a Sound Mental State, that is, on Dreams | p. 81 |
On the Faculty of Designation (facultas signatrix) | p. 83 |
On the Faculty of Cognition as Far as It Is Based on Understanding | p. 90 |
Anthropological Comparison of the Three Higher Cognitive Faculties with Each Other | p. 91 |
On the Soul's Weaknesses and Illnesses with Respect to Its Cognitive Faculty | p. 97 |
On the Talents of the Cognitive Faculty | p. 118 |
On the Specific Differences between the Comparative and the Argumentative Intelligence | p. 119 |
On Sensuous Pleasure | p. 130 |
On Emotion in Contrast to Passion | p. 156 |
On the Emotions in Particular | p. 158 |
On Passions | p. 172 |
On the Highest Physical Good | p. 184 |
On the Highest Ethicophysical Good | p. 185 |
Anthropological Characterization | |
The Character of the Person | p. 195 |
The Character of the Sexes | p. 216 |
The Character of Nations | p. 225 |
On the Character of Races | p. 236 |
On the Character of the Species | p. 237 |
Notes | p. 255 |
Index | p. 291 |
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