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We are delighted to have scholars from the Center for the Study of Digital Life, Mark Shahlman & Peter Berkman, discussing the Cogitative Sense and the role it plays in the Ecology of the Inner Senses. This presentation will contrast Aristotle’s and Aquinas’ approach to human faculties with modern psychology approaches.

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This is a deep topic on the faculties of human beings and how they operate together, and the crucial role the Cogitative sense plays in the Ecology of Inner Senses.

The best introduction to this topic is "A Forgotten Sense: The Cogitative According to St. Thomas Aquinas" by Julien Peghaire see here: http://www.digitallife.center/images/...

What is the Cogitative Faculty?
[Excerpts from the Conclusion of the essay.]

“It is the master faculty of practical people, of artisans, of people who know how to do things; it is the sense of fortunate discoveries, happy combinations, success in action...

[It is] the internal sense of the good proper to the individual, and consequently proper to the entire species.

The cogitative is therefore a real liaison agent between the spiritual world of our ideas and the corporeal world of our senses... it is a priceless instrument for the intellect, whether there be question of speculation or of action... the cogitative is rightly called the particular reason and the intellect of the individual.

...the cogitative, on the contrary [to instinct], is essentially founded on consciousness. By its very nature the cogitative perfects itself in speed of action, sureness of vision, richness of experience, and thus prepares an ever more perfect instrument for intellectual progress.

The cogitative aims particularly at placing the inferior portion (vegetative and sensitive) at the service of the superior and rational portion, thus contributing to the good of the whole, the complete and ordered satisfaction of all the faculties of the human person.

The cogitative must take up again in our psychology the place so generously marked out for it by St. Thomas Aquinas.“

If you find this 36 page essay daunting, you can read the Conclusion of the essay (pages 101-104) to get a quick overview of the Cogitative sense, attend the Meetup for a more detailed overview and then read the essay later. We will be making sure that all the discussion is accessible to a thoughtful audience previously unfamiliar with the topic. Be sure to use writing to keep track of all the ideas, your observations and questions. This is an interactive workshop.

Join us in our study of the just published book “Ecology of the Inner Senses” by Center for the Study of Digital Life after 4.5 years of research of which the above essay is a part: http://www.digitallife.center/index.p...

"The basic thesis is that culture, civilization, and our consciousness itself is shaped by our psycho-technological environment, which is shaped by the communications tools that we invent, which thereafter shape us. Major eras can be demarcated as:

ORAL – after the invention of language
SCRIBAL – after the invention of writing
PRINT – after the invention of movable type, the printing press, and
mass literacy
ELECTRIC – after the invention of the telegraph, telephone, radio,
and television
DIGITAL – after the invention of computers and the internet"

-- Bill Frezza

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