Psychology Laws of Animality Vol 3 Author:Antonio Rosmini Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IX. WHY DOES THE HUMAN SOUL UNITE ITSELF TO ONE BODY, AND TO ONE RATHER THAN TO ANOTHER. 690. If we remember that the intellective principle is fre... more »e from the laws of 'space, it seems to contain no reason which should determine it to unite itself to one body rather than to another, or to one rather than to many. But the sufficient reason which determines the intellective principle to unite with one body rather than to another, is found in the manner in which we have shown the rational principle to be formed. As we have seen, it was at first a sensitive animal subject, which went on perfecting itself until it attained universal being. Now the animal subject is determined by the continuous which is its felt, and, hence, is bound to space and to a determinate space. Moreover, it is a law of the animal subject that it cannot terminate in several separate con- tinua, the truth being that when there are several continua, the subjects or sensitive principles multiply correspondingly. When, therefore, the intellective act, whereby the intellective soul exists within the individuated corporeal feeling, arises, it remains, in its formation, bound to the same laws as those of the sensitive principle which was its root. It cannot, therefore, perceive, that is, inform another animal feeling or another body besides that of which it was originally the act and form. CHAPTER X. CAN THE INTELLECTIVE PRINCIPLE OF ITS OWN ACCORD QUIT THE BODY INDEPENDENTLY OF DISORGANIZATION r 691. We have, thus far, lefi untouched the question whether the death of man can take place without the disorganization of the body. Let us now take up this question and see whether from the principles thus far laid down, be they certain or probable, we can derive any probable answer. We have said...« less