Book II: God the Origin of creatures
Book II: God the Origin of creatures
- Connexion of what follows with what has gone before
- That the Philosopher and the Theologian view Creatures from different standpoints
- Order of matters to be Treated
- That it belongs to God to be to other Beings the principle of existence
- That there is in God active power
- That God's power is His substance
- That God's power is His action
- In what manner power is said to be in God
- That something is predicated of God in relation to creatures
- That the relations, predicated of God in regard to creatures, are not really in God
- How the aforesaid relations are predicated of God
- That the Predication of many Relations of God is no prejudice
- That God is to all things the cause of their being
- That Creation is not a movement nor a change
- Solution of arguments against creation
- That Creation is not successive
- That it belongs to God Alone to create
- That God is almighty
- That God's Action in Creation is not of Physical Necessity, but of Free choice of will
- That God acts by His wisdom
- In what sense some things are said to be impossible to the almighty
- That the Divine understanding is not limited to certain fixed effects
- That God has not brought things into being in discharge of any debt of justice
- How in the production of a Creature there may be Found a debt of Justice
- How absolute necessity may have place in creation
- That it is not necessary for creatures to have existed from eternity
- Reasons alleged for the Eternity of the world on the part of God, with answers to the same
- Reasons alleged for the Eternity of the world on the part creatures, with answers to the same
- Reasons alleged for the Eternity of the world on the part of the creative process itself
- Arguments wherewith some try to show that the world is not eternal, and solutions of the same
- That the Variety of Creatures does not arise from any contrariety of prime agents
- That the Variety of Creatures has not arisen from variety of merits and demerits
- The Real Prime cause of the variety of creatures.
- That it was necessary for the Perfection of the universe
- That Subsistent intelligences are voluntary agents
- That Subsistent intelligences have free will
- That Subsistent intelligence is not corporeal
- That in Created Subsistent Intelligences there is a Difference between existence and essence
- That in Created Subsistent intelligences there is actuality and potentiality
- That Subsistent intelligences are imperishable
- How a Subsistent Intelligence may be united with a Body, with a solution of the arguments
- Plato's Theory of the Union of the intellectual soul with the body
- That Vegetative, Sentient, and Intelligent are not in man three souls
- That the Potential Intellect of Man is not a spirit subsisting apart from matter
- That Man is not a Member the Human Species by possession of passive intellect
- That the aforesaid tenet is contrary to the mind of Aristotle
- Against the Opinion of Alexander concerning the potential intellect
- That the soul is not a harmony
- That the soul is not a body
- Against those who suppose intellect and sense to be the same
- Against those who maintain that the potential intellect is the phantasy
- How a Subsistent Intelligence may be the form of a body
- Solution of the Arguments alleged to show that a subsistent intelligence cannot be united
- That the Potential Intellect is not One and the same in all men
- Of the Opinion of Avicenna, who supposed intellectual forms not to be preserved
- Confutation of the Arguments which seem to prove the unity of the potential intellect
- That the Active Intellect is not a separately Subsisting Intelligence, But a faculty of the soul
- That it is not impossible for the potential and the active intellect
- That the Human soul does not perish with the body
- Arguments of those who wish to prove that the Human soul perishes with the body
- That the Souls of dumb animals are not immortal
- Apparent Arguments to show that the Human Soul does not begin with the Body
- That the soul is not of the substance of God
- That the Human soul is not transmitted by generation
- That the Human Soul is brought into being by a creative act of God
- Arguments against the Truth of the conclusion last drawn, with their solution
- That there are subsistent intelligences not united with bodies
- That Intelligences subsisting apart are not more than one in the same species
- That an Intelligence subsisting apart and a soul are not of one species
- That Intelligences subsisting apart do not gather their knowledge from objects of sense
- That the Mind of an Intelligence subsisting apart is ever in the Act of Understanding
- How one separately subsisting intelligence knows another
- That Intelligences subsisting apart know material things
- That Intelligences subsisting apart know individual things
- Whether to Separately Subsisting Intelligences all Points of their natural knowledge