Psychology (With Ethics & Religion), Vol. 1 Book

	Sources	xi
	Preface and Acknowledgements	xiii
	Introduction	1
1	Perception	33
1(a)	Does perceptual recognition require opinion?	33
1(b)	Perceptual recognition by concept-projection	37
1(c)	Reception of form without matter	44
1(d)	Dematerialisation of the sensory process	47
1(e)	Intentional objects	52
1(f)	Objections to vision involving travelling bodies	53
1(g)	Philoponus' view, the activity of colour	56
1(h)	Optic nerve	59
1(i)	Proclus puts nous into perception	60
1(j)	Is there perception of universals?	60
2	Phantasia	61
2(a)	Aristotle's distinction between phantasia and doxa	61
2(b)	Higher phantasia of intelligibles	63
2(c)	Can phantasia apprehend things as true or false?	65
2(d)	Is there ever phantasia of universals?	66
2(e)	The mental image resides in the pneuma	67
2(f)	Phantasia and memory involve projecting	68
2(g)	Phantasia and vehicles of the soul: prophecy	70
2(h)	Phantasia and vehicles of the soul: Hades	75
2(i)	Phantasia in geometry	76
2(j)	No images independent of sense perception	79
2(k)	The role of will in imaging fictions	80
2(l)	Creative and linguistic imagination	81
2(m)	Imagination and inspiration	83
3	Thought	86
3(a)	Intellect vs. reason	86
3(b)	Relation of intellect and reason to pleasure and desire	87
3(c)	Opiniative vs. scientific reason	88
3(d)	Non-discursive thought: is it propositional?	90
3(e)	Plotinus' undescended soul	93
3(f)	The unconscious	100
3(g)	Aristotle's active, actual or productive intellect	102
3(h)	How distinct is intellect from soul?	118
3(i)	Intelligibles and third potentiality	119
3(j)	Passive intellect as phantasia	121
3(k)	Identity of intellect with its objects	123
3(l)	Intelligibles within intellect	129
3(m)	Why is our thinking intermittent?	131
3(n)	Are intelligibles efficient or final causes?	131
3(o)	Are images needed in all thought and memory?	132
4	Self-Awareness	134
4(a)	Self-awareness as contentless	134
4(b)	Self-awareness as infinitely regressive	142
4(c)	Unity of self-awareness	145
(i)	Plato, Aristotle and Alexander	148
(ii)	Plotinus	149
(iii)	Proclus	150
(iv)	'Philoponus' on Plutarch of Athens	152
(v)	Priscian and 'Simplicius'	153
(vi)	[Epi]strephesthai	156
(vii)	Damascius	157
(viii)	Augustine	158
4(d)	Neoplatonist terminology drawn from Stoics	159
4(e)	Knowing self though others	161
4(f)	Direct self-knowledge: Cogito and Flying Man	166
5	Recollection and Concept Formation	172
5(a)	Recollection	172
5(b)	Aristotle's theory of concept formation	173
5(c)	Ascription to Aristotle of pre-nate concepts	177
5(d)	Adoption of Plato's concepts alongside Aristotle's	180
6	Soul-Body	182
6(a)	The dependence of mental on bodily states	182
6(b)	Soul non-spatially related to body	204
6(c)	Making bodies for incarnation	211
6(d)	Transmigration into animal bodies	213
7	Immobility of Soul and of Intellect	217
8	Vehicles of Soul	221
8(a)	Origins of the idea	221
8(b)	Roles of vehicles	221
(i)	Punishment after death	221
(ii)	Mutual recognition and communication after death	224
(iii)	Desires and senses generated from pneumatic vehicles	225
(iv)	Hearing daemons through pneumatic vehicles	226
(v)	Continuity for the soul after death	227
(vi)	Enabling souls to move	227
(vii)	Enabling prophecy and visions of gods	227
(viii)	Shades in Hades, and daemons taking shape	227
8(c)	Duration of vehicles	227
8(d)	Alexander's criticism of mobility function	228
8(e)	The Christian resurrection body	229
8(f)	Spherical shape of vehicles	236
8(g)	Punishment after death and the resurrection vehicle	238
9	Knowledge of Other Minds	242
(i)	Humans	242
(ii)	Soul vehicles and spiritual bodies	242
(iii)	Gods	243
(iv)	Daemons	243
(v)	Animals	243
10	Definitions of Soul	245
11	Types of Soul	248
11(a)	Tripartite soul in humans	248
11(b)	Is there a rational soul in animals?	249
11(c)	Image, trace, echo of soul	250
11(d)	Is all soul alike?	251
11(e)	Hypostasis soul, World Soul, human souls	252
11(f)	Earth soul, plant souls, embryo souls	253
11(g)	Attitudes to the earth	260
12	Immortality of Soul	262
12(a)	Discontinuity of body	262
12(b)	Does the soul survive?	262
12(c)	How much of the soul survives?	264
12(d)	Circular time and rejuvenation	268
12(e)	What is remembered?	269
13	Emotion	275
13(a)	Emotion depends on body and irrational forces	275
13(b)	The correct classification of emotions	275
13(c)	Apatheia and metriopatheia	280
13(d)	Apatheia of soul: what part of us suffers emotion?	281
13(e)	Relation of emotion to opinion	293
13(f)	Mystical experience, shock and eupatheia	294
13(g)	Pleasure	294
13(h)	Iamblichus vs. Porphyry on emotional arousal	297
13(i)	Catharsis	299
13(j)	The emotional effect of music	302
14	Theory of Action	305
14(a)	Up to us and responsibility	305
14(b)	Proairesis	314
14(c)	The choice of lives	317
15	Methods for Ascent to God	319
15(a)	The Neoplatonist commentators' curriculum	319
15(b)	Procedures for beginning ascent	325
16	Ineffability and the Rejection of Words	327
16(a)	Negative theology, ineffability of the One	327
16(b)	Scepticism: relation to theology	336
17	Ethics	337
17(a)	Types of virtue	337
17(b)	Does virtue admit of latitude and degrees?	344
17(c)	Goals of conduct in virtue and art	346
17(d)	Sin	348
17(e)	Happy life as non-temporal	349
17(f)	Happy life not dependent on externals	349
17(g)	Suicide and martyrdom	350
17(h)	Justice to animals	360
17(i)	Communism in Plato's Republic	361
17(j)	The morality of Homer's myths	364
17(k)	EN 5 on justice	367
(i)	Economics	367
(ii)	Just war	367
(iii)	Natural justice	368
18	Religious Practice	369
18(a)	Sacrifice, propitiation, forgiveness, invocation	369
18(b)	Theurgy	381
18(c)	Prayer	390
18(d)	Faith, truth, love and hope	394
18(e)	Erotic magic is not due to the gods	400
18(f)	Daemons	403
18(g)	Divination	408
	The Ancient Commentators on Aristotle translation series	411
	Translators in the Sourcebook	413
	Abbreviations and Sigla	415
	Main Thinkers Represented in the Sourcebook	417
	Index Locorum	421