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- Title
Two Unusual Mind Diagrams in a Late Fifteenth-Century Manuscript (UPenn Schoenberg Collection, LJS 429).
- Authors
Carruthers, Mary J.
- Abstract
University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection, MS LJS 429, is a small booklet containing materials of natural philosophy, chiefly related to the effects of cosmic forces on human biology. Two of its diagrams illustrate the mentalizing process of the Aristotelian-Thomist psychology anima sensitiva , or the process through which sensory experience is formed as a mental perception. This essay points out the ways in which these diagrams differ from a standard (Thomist) medieval model of Mind. During the very late Middle Ages, the analysis of Mind as anima sensitiva and mens appears to shift from being action-based (analysed in terms of abilities and powers) to being substantive-based (analysed in terms of substantial agents using material tools). I will suggest that these two diagrams unusually model "faculty psychology" in a way that seems to foreshadow one we associate more with the time of Descartes, and even of Locke and Hume.
- Subjects
LOCKE, John, 1632-1704; DESCARTES, Rene, 1596-1650; SCHOENBERG, Arnold, 1874-1951; HUMAN biology; CHARTS, diagrams, etc.; FORM perception; BRAIN; PHYSICS
- Publication
Manuscript Studies: A Journal of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, 2019, Vol 4, Issue 2, p389
- ISSN
2381-5329
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/mns.2019.0017