The influence of the passions on cognitive assessment

We study how the passions condition the particular sensible judgement of the cogitative, the faculty that bridges between the sensible and the spiritual, which apprehends the sensible in its reason of convenience or harmfulness, of absolute sensible good or absolute sensible evil. We do so by approaching the treatise on the passions in the Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas. In order to answer the questions: what do the passions leave in the cognitive, how do they affect it, what happens in the case of diseases of the passions, how to educate them, we analyse each of them according to the order and the way in which our author presents them, and taking into account the contribution of authors who belong to our time and who deepen the teaching of Aquinas.