... Conclusiones aliquot physiologicae de sensibus

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CONCLUSION I.

The form or entelecheia actualization/actuality of our living body is the Soul: whose essence, although Galen did not dare to touch upon it, Aristotle nevertheless rightfully admires as an ingenious and in every way complete definition (book 2, On the Soul, context 5).

II.
It is generally distinguished by physicists into these three powers: Vegetative, Sensitive, and Discursive.

III.
The Vegetative Soul has three primary faculties: Generative, Nutritive, and Augmentative.

IV.
Of the Sensitive Soul, the faculties are some internal, others external. Internal, such as the Common sense, Memory, Phantasy; from which arises Appetite, and from this, Locomotion.

V.
External faculties are contained by the five so-called External senses: Sight, Hearing, Smell, Taste, and Touch.

VI.
Aristotle made the Discursive Soul twofold based on its action: Agent and Patient.

VII.
Since the philosopher has rightly advised in the book On Sense and Sensibles, chapter 1, that the senses contribute to necessity and knowledge, and furthermore, having set aside utility, has written that they are to be loved for their own sake, [On] Wisdom, context 1.

VIII.
It seemed to us to propose the main points about them, especially since all knowledge has its origin from them, as it is in the first Posterior Analytics, context 134, and to seek the reason for any thing while abandoning the sense, arrhostia tis esti dianoias is a certain sickness of the mind, book 8, Physics, context 22.

IX.
Therefore, as an animal is dia ten aisthesin protos primarily for the sake of sensation, book 2, On the Soul, context 16, so it is necessary that there be something in the animal in which sensation is contained.