in England, is a special privilege or dispensation granted by favor and indulgence to enable a person to do that which he is not permitted to do without it. There is a court of the Facultie the chief officer of which is master of the Faculties, under the archbishop of Canterbury that has power, by 25 Henry VIII, 21, to grant dispensations to marry, to hold two or more incompatible benefices, and the like; and in it are registered the certificates of peers to their chaplains to qualify them for pluralities and non-residence. The last gives authority to grant such dispensations “for any such matters, not being repugnant to the holy Scriptures and the laws of God, whereof before such dispensations, etc., had been accustomed to be had at the see of Rome. Up to the time of passing this act, the pope, notwithstanding the statutes which had been passed restraining his authority, continued tou exercise his powmer, and to draw a commsiderable revemamme for indmilgences, etc. the sittings of the court have always been held at Doctors’ Commons” (q.v.).<\/p>\n
SEE UNIVERSITY.<\/p>\n
(Scholastic) Medieval psychology distinguishes several faculties of the soul which are said to be really distinct from each other and from the substance of the soul. According to Aquinas the distinction is based on objects and operations. The faculties are conceived as accidents of the soul’s substance, but as pertaining essentially to its nature, therefore “proper accidents”. The soul operates by means of the faculties. Much misunderstood and deteriorated, this theory remained alive until recent times and is still maintained, in its original and pure form, by Neo-Scholasticism. A certain rapprochement to the older notion may he observed in the modern theory of “general factors”. Most of the criticisms directed against the faculty-psychology are based on modern experimental and nominalistic approaches. The faculties listed by Aquinas are<\/p>\n
The sensory faculties, which to operate need a bodily organ;<\/p>\n
The external senses,<\/p>\n
The internal senses, sensus communis, memory, imagination, vis aestimativa (in animals) or cogitativa (in man),<\/p>\n
The sensory appetites, subdivided in the concupiscible appetite aiming at the attainable good or fleeing the avoidable evil, the irascible appetite related to good and evil whose attainment or avoidance encounters obstacles.<\/p>\n
The vegetative faculties, comprising the achievements of nutrition, growth and procreation. While the sensory appetites are common sto man and animals, the vegetative are observed also in plants.<\/p>\n
The locomotive faculty, characteristic of animals and, therefore, also of man.<\/p>\n
The rational faculties, found with man alone;<\/p>\n
Intellect, whose proper object is the universal nature of things and whose achievements are abstraction, reasoning, judging, syllogistic thought,<\/p>\n
Rational Will, directed towards the good as such and relying in its operation on particulars on the co-operation of the appetites, just as intellect needs for the formation of its abstract notions the phantasm, derived from sense impressions and presented to the intellect by imagination. The vis cogitativa forms a link between rational universal will and particular strivings; it is therefore also called ratio particularis.<\/p>\n
Ch. A. Hart, The Thomisttc Theory of Mental Faculties, Washington, D. C, 1930. — R.A.<\/p>\n
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