The Faculties of the Soul and Some Medieval Mind-Body Problems
The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review 2011 Adam Wood 7 citations
1 Republic 436a (trans. G.M.A. Grube, rev. C.D.C. Reeve, in Plato: Complete Works, ed. John M. Collins [Indianapolis: Hackett, 1997], 1067). 2 I will use the term "faculty" (of the soul) interchangeably with the terms "capacity" and "ability," and as synonymous with what the medievals usually called potentiae animae, although, as we'll see below, the medieval term harbored some crucial...