Quid Discriminis Essentialis Intersit Inter Animi Et Materiei Substantias, Et Quali Modo Utraque in Homine Naturaliter Conjugatur Alteri (Classic Reprint) (Latin Edition) - Hardcover

Carolus Scherner

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 065628837X ISBN 13: 9780656288373

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Explore the deep structure of mind and matter in a rigorous medieval‑scholastic argument.

This work examines how anima and materia substantiae inter se coniunguntur, detailing how unity, centralitas, and potency shape living beings from plants to embryos. The text presents a careful method to show how mind and matter interact and produce form, action, and life.

In dense yet explicitly argued sections, the author traces how material and agentive forces combine, how perception and effect arise, and how unity emerges from dual substrate. Readers encounter a sustained inquiry into essence, potential, and the dynamics of attraction and repulsion, all grounded in a concrete account of natural philosophy.

• Understand how substance and form are conceived to act together in living beings.
• See how unity arises from the interaction of material and mental powers.
• Follow the step‑by‑step reasoning about centrality, plastic power, and the creation of organismal structure.
• Explore the premises and conclusions about how perception and action relate to essence.

Ideal for readers of philosophy, metaphysics, and the history of ideas, especially those curious about theories of mind–body union and the nature of life.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: Latin
• ISBN 10: 065628837X
• ISBN 13: 9780656288373
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 48