Compendium on the Soul (1546) - Page 16

...of a natural organic body, according to which there proceed from it the operations of nutrition, growth, and generating its like. The sensitive soul is the first perfection original: "perfectio prima"; in Aristotelian philosophy, the "first perfection" is the basic form or structural realization of a thing that allows it to function. of a natural organic body, according to which there occur the operations of nutrition, growth, and generating its like, as well as the operations of voluntary progressive movement and the operations of sense and apprehension. The intellectual soul is the first perfection of a natural organic body, according to which there occur the operations of nutrition and the remaining operations that belong to the sensitive soul, and along with these, the operations of the apprehension of universals Concepts that apply to many things, like the idea of "humanity" rather than a specific person..

Chapter Three: That no soul arises from a mixture of elements, but instead arrives from the outside.

Another reading: a. composition.

Another reading:
b. arriving at the composition or mixture of both resisting one another.

"Impression," that is, operation.

Whenever diverse things are compounded, there happens to the composite resulting from them a form that either inclines toward one of the forms of the simple elements, or does not so incline. Because if it were not so, then either it does not incline toward any of the forms of the simple elements because of the resistance of equality (or the equal quantity of them); or, while not inclining toward any of the forms of the aforementioned simple elements, it is a form added on top of what the forms of the simple elements require—whether considering them as simple parts or considering A them with the ª [composite.] And an example of the first division is like food inclining toward bitterness when it is composed of dominant aloe and overcome honey. But an example of the second B division is like a gray or bluish-gray color of equal proportion between the extremes of whiteness and blackness, ᵇ [with these resisting one another] in their composition. However, an example of the third division from the C aforementioned divisions is like the engraving of a seal occurring in clay composed of dry earth and fluid water during their mixing. It is known, however, that the engraving that appears in the clay does not come from the requirement of the forms of the simple elements; nor, if you consider it, does it come from the simple parts, nor even, if you consider it, from the composition itself. And it is indeed clear that in the first division—when it occurs between simple parts of contrary forms, not merely by mixing but D by a complex blending original: "complexionem permixtionem"; the specific temperament or balance of qualities in a mixture.—then in the element that has been overcome, its property is not found in its essence or in its influence original: "impressione"; meaning the effect or operation of a quality., because of the prohibition against two contraries being in one place or subject at the same time; rather, the end of the ope-