Commentaries of the College of Coimbra on the Three Books on the Soul - Volume VII - Manuel de Góis

Commentaries of the College of Coimbra on Aristotle’s Three Books on the Soul, Volume VII by Manuel de Góis is a scholastic Aristotelian commentary that examines Aristotle’s De Anima within the Coimbra Jesuit tradition. It belongs to the Conimbricenses series, which systematizes Aristotelian philosophy for academic and theological instruction.

A central concern of the volume is the nature of the soul as the principle of life. Góis analyzes Aristotle’s doctrine of the soul as the form of the living body, addressing its faculties, operations, and relation to the body in plants, animals, and human beings.

The work also treats intellectual cognition, including the powers of the intellect and will, the nature of abstraction, and the immortality of the rational soul, while engaging scholastic debates on psychology and metaphysics. Overall, it provides a comprehensive exposition of Aristotelian psychology within the late Scholastic tradition.