HUMAN NATURE Flashcards
It accompanies lower faculties, functions, and operations similar to those of a brute animal. It can do what animals do.
BODY
the act of generating species of its kind
REPRODUCTION
the act of nourishing for survival
APPETITION
the activity to move from one place to another
LOCOMOTION
the tendency towards the pleasurable or favorable and away from unfavorable
INSTINCT
five external senses
SIGHT, HEARING, SMELLING, TASTING, AND TOUCHING
TRIPARTITE SOUL
- RATIONAL SOUL
- SENSITIVE SOUL
- NUTRITIVE SOUL
The ___ soul is a spiritual being, a spirit. The spirit is simple. The spirit is not perceptible to the senses, because it has no parts to be perceived.
SOUL
It is the type of soul possessed by human beings.
RATIONAL SOUL
The type of soul possessed by nonhuman animals. The sensitive soul has the capacity to receive and react to sense impressions but does not have a capacity for rational thought.
SENSITIVE SOUL
The type of soul possessed by plants. The vegetative soul has the capacity for growth and reproduction but does not have the capacity to receive and react to sense impressions or the capacity for rational thought.
NUTRITIVE SOUL
RATIONAL FACULTIES
OF THE HUMAN SOUL
INTELLECT AND FREEWILL
is a rational faculty that tends towards the truth as its object. It is commonly called mind or intelligence.
INTELLECT
is a rational faculty that tends towards the good as its object.
FREEWILL
The nature of the human person is an integration of both body and soul without any one of which he is not a human person. The body and soul co-exist in the human person. He is an “ensouled body” or an “embodied spirit.”
HUMAN NATURE
