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The Renaissance Soul in Diagram

Vicki Silver, UCI

 

 

 

Intellect or Reason: apprehension, abstraction, reasoning power

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Senses: sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell

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Common Sense: synthesizes sensory input

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Imagination: stores sensory impressions, forms novel images by recombining impressions

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Memory: knowledge, abstract ideas

 

 

 

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Will: power to choose; power to act

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Appetite:

 

 

 

 

Concupiscible--attractive and repulsive passions: love, hatred, desire, aversion, pleasure, grief

 

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Irascible--defensive passions: anger, hope, despair, courage, fear

 

 

 

 

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Vegetable Soul: bodily functions like digestion, nutrition, reproduction, growth