The Philosophical System of Antonio Rosmini-Serbati

§ 112. The sources from which a knowledge of truth is derived
§ 113. The didactic method is either general or particular
§ 114. Supreme principles of the three methods

SCIENCES OF PERCEPTION.

§ 115. Why Ideology and Logic were called Sciences of Intuition.—

Means of knowing essences

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§ 116. What we can perceive is ourselves and the external world. Hence

the two sciences, Psychology and Cosmology.-Relation of

Psychology to Cosmology

§ 117. Supernatural Anthropology goes beyond the limits of mere philo-

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§ 120. All reasoning on the essence of the soul sets out from the feeling of

the soul.-Being and feeling indefinable

§ 121. Difference between the feeling of our bodies and the feeling of our

souls.-The Ego different from sensations ...

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§ 122. The human soul is a principle at once sensitive and intellective.-

Difference between sense and intelligence ...

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§ 123. In what sense the Ego expresses the soul, and in what sense it is
called the principle and subject of Psychology.-The Ego is:
self-affirmed subject and belongs to the Science of Logic
§ 124. Complete definition of the human soul.-Definitions given by
Aristotle, St. Thomas, and Porphyry

§ 125. Hence are deduced the other properties of the human soul. Sim-

plicity. Immortality. -Various kinds of simplicity. The two

terms of the soul. Its immortality is due to the intuited term... 264

§ 126. In what sense the opinion of Plato, that the body is an obstacle to

the soul, is false.-Human knowledge is a series of determina-

tions of being

§ 127. The extended term of feeling is double, space and body, and these

have opposite characters.-Nature of space and extension. The

external world. Atoms

§ 128. Connection of soul and body. The incomprehensibility of this

connection does not give us the right to doubt the fact.-

Opinion of Plotinus. Of Professor Bain. The soul not a

mathematical point. Porphyry on the incorporeal ...

feels its own body with a passivity mingled

with much activity. The sentient principle feels a foreign body
if in the body subject to its power there comes a change inde-
pendent of, and opposed to it

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§ 130. There would be no difficulty in understanding how the soul

should feel external bodies, if we could understand how, being

a simple principle, it can have an extended term.-The

substance of the soul is simple. Herbert Spencer's view

§ 131. A close consideration of this question shows that the continuous

does not lie in the single parts, but in a principle embracing them

all at once, and hence the continuous cannot exist, except as

the term of the act of a simple principle.-The principle of

continuity is sensation. The ultimate elements of matter are

animate and sentient

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§ 132. The first term of the sensitive soul is unmeasured space. Its

second term is the body which it informs. The fundamental

feeling. External sensations. How measured space is pre-

sented to feeling. — Feeling and consciousness of feeling.

Herbert Spencer on the fundamental feeling. We form the

idea of space or extension in two ways

$133. The soul exercises no action on its first term; but toward its

second it is both active and passive

§ 134. Sensitivity and instinct

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§ 135. Instinct, sensual and vital. Origin of Medicine.-The various

§ 136. Principle and term in the animal form a single being

§ 137. Three kinds of feeling in the animal corresponding to the three

conditions of the sensible term.-Feeling of Continuity. Feel-

ing of Excitation. Feeling of Organization

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§ 138. Difference between animate and animal.—Elementary and organic

souls. The unit of natural existence is sentience

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§ 139. Laws of essential changes which the animate undergoes in respect

of its individuality.-Meaning of generation

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§ 140. The human soul, in so far as it is intellective, is united to its own
body by an original, inborn perception of it.-Extra-subjective
real body and anatomical body

§ 141. There is a physical influence between soul and body.—Character-
istics of the fundamental animal feeling ...

§ 142. How the intellective and sensitive principles are one
§ 143. What is death ?-Separation of the body from its sensible term...
§ 144. Second office of Psychology to deduce and classify the faculties of
the soul.-Powers of the intellect
$145. Questions that present themselves when we try to deduce the
powers of the soul from its essence

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§ 146. Three classes of laws to which the soul is subject in its operations

—psychological, ontological, cosmological

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§ 147. The supreme ontological law is the principle of cognition

§ 148. Cosmological laws are either laws of motion or laws of harmony 312

§ 149. Two classes of psychological laws, corresponding to the ontologi-

cal and cosmological.-Composition of Ego, non-Ego. Infinite 313

$150. The third and last aim of Psychology is to discover the destiny
of the human soul. The soul naturally tends to its own per-
fection, which consists in the full vision of the truth, full exer-
cise of virtue, and full attainment of happiness. These three

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goods are but aspects of one and the same good.-Happiness

§ 151. Religious tradition alone can free man from the doubts which

arise from the sad spectacle of the present life, and man's

higher destinies must be treated in a supernatural Psychology

and Anthropology.-The supernatural light

2. Cosmology.

§ 152. What is Cosmology?—The science of the extra-subjective

§ 153. How Cosmology considers the world. -Parts of Cosmology

§ 154. First part of Cosmology ...

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§ 155. First proof of the creation of the world.-Nature of creation

§ 156. Second proof.-Creation is from non-being, not from nothing

§ 158. The knowledge of the essential limitations of contingent being

completes our knowledge of its nature.-Doctrine of limits ...

§ 159. Sublime questions to which the theme of creation gives occasion

-Possible limitations not infinite

§ 160. Second part of Cosmology..

§ 161. Third part of Cosmology

SCIENCES OF REASONING.

§ 163. Sources of the principles and material of reasoning. Nature of

§ 166. Ontology. The three forms of being: the ideal, the real, and

§ 167. The essence identical, the forms utterly distinct.-Unitarians

§ 170. Properties of the three forms.-Two views of ideality

§ 171. The three forms are the foundation of the categories

§ 172. The categories differ from genera and species

§ 173. Law of the synthesism of being.-The world as absolute and as

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§ 174. Ontology examines the recesses of being to find the reason for the

distribution of being into genera and species

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§ 175. It seeks the essential properties of being in the light of cognition.

-Idea of God includes subsistence

§ 176. Natural Theology

§ 177. The idea we have of God is not positive but negative

§ 178. First proof of the existence of God

§ 179. Second proof

§ 180. Third proof

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§ 181. Fourth proof.-Rosmini's view of Categorical Imperative

§ 182. Considering the manner in which we know God, we call our know-

ledge of him negative-ideal.—Negative cognition ...

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§ 183. Two ways in which our minds rise to the Absolute Being

§ 184. Theology must supplement what was said in the Cosmology of the

divine operations ad extra

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Can the human intelligence, fortified by revelation, know that the

divine essence must exist in three persons? Views of Ermene-

gildo Pini and the Abbé Mastrofini

§ 188. The exposition of the divine attributes leads to Theodicy, which
deals with the power, wisdom, and goodness of God, as dis-
played in the world.-Contents of Rosmini's Theodicy