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Quotation from Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas
“For when the act of the imagination is hindered by a lesion of the corporeal organ, for instance in a case of frenzy; or when the act of the memory is hindered, as in the case of lethargy, we see that a man is hindered from actually understanding things of which he had a previous knowledge”
Summa Theologica, I, Q. 84, Art. 7, trans. Fathers of the English Dominican Province (1911-1920)
Evidence that the intellect, though not itself a bodily organ, depends on imagination and memory, which do use bodily organs.
Citation: "For when the act of the imagination is hindered by a lesion of the corporeal organ, for instance in a case of frenzy; or when the act of the memory is hindered, as in the case of lethargy, we see that a man is hindered from actually understanding things of which he had a previous knowledge" — Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, I, Q. 84, Art. 7, trans. Fathers of the English Dominican Province (1911-1920). (id summa-theologica-q7)
Portrait: Saint Thomas Aquinas, Carlo Crivelli, Public domain.
