Index of subjects
Abstraction
13-15, 22, 27-30, 72-73, 87-102, 108-110, 129, 131, 136, 155, 215-217, 236-237
Accident 15, 81-82, 91, 101, 114, 120-122, 154, 157-159, 169, 210-211, 226, 229-230, 236-238,
244-251, 253, 255-256, 271, 279, 298
Accidental change 151, 158
Accidental form (see Form: Accidental form)
Existing without a subject 16, 173
No accident in God (see God: Accidents)
Kind of supposition in logic 69-70
Necessary accidents (Inseparable accidents) 159, 255
Separable accidents 159, 256
Active intellect (see Agent intellect)
Act of being (see Existence)
Afterlife (see Soul: Immortality)
Agent intellect (active intellect, hylic intellect) 15-16, 90, 92, 101, 111-112, 186-187, 198-202,
205-206
Amalricians 242
Analogy 166-167, 290-291, 298-299
Analytic philosophy 1-2
Angels (intelligences, separate substances) 175-176, 183, 219, 238-241, 243, 250, 253, 359-360
Freely choosing between good and evil 178-179, 311-312, 315-316, 337-339, 348
Individuation of 17, 183, 190, 217, 238-239, 243
Knowledge of 90-91, 217
As celestial intelligences taking part in creation 173, 176-179, 182-184, 192
Anti-dialecticians 6, 9 (See also Dialectical method)
Apophatic theology (see Negative theology)
Aristotelianism 4, 9, 10, 12, 15-18, 22, 27-29, 151-154, 156, 227, 230, 246, 304 (see also
Latin Averroism)
Augustinianism 6, 9, 16-17, 27, 29, 153-154, 241, 306
Averroism (see Latin Averroism)
Being 13-14, 25, 45, 72, 76, 92, 110, 117, 120, 127-128, 140, 157-160, 166-167, 174, 184, 187,
203-204, 227-230, 246, 248, 255, 270, 278, 281, 287, 290, 298-299, 310, 317-323, 356, 363
First object of the intellect 106
Being of reason (ens rationis) vs. real being (ens reale) 228
Perfect being (see God: Perfect being)
(see also Convertibility of being and goodness, Existence)
Bible (see Scripture)
Carolingian Renaissance 5
Categories (of Aristotle) 5, 21-22, 44, 72, 158, 167, 170, 228, 248, 255, 282, 285, 299
Cathedral schools 7-8
Cause
Actual cause 166
Per accidens cause 162, 165
Per se cause 162, 165
Potential cause 166
Proximate cause 113, 165, 181
Remote cause 111, 113, 165, 182
(see also Efficient cause, Final cause, Formal cause, Material cause)
Change (see Accident: Accidental change, Substance: Substantial change)
Church Fathers 6, 9
Commentary (type of treatise) 9-12
On the Sentences 9-10
Common good 307, 364-365, 373-374, 379
Common sense (sensus communis) 48, 143
Concepts 12-13, 15, 19-22, 27, 29-30, 63, 66-67, 69, 70, 73-74, 79-81, 105, 108, 166-167,
214, 227, 233, 236-237, 238, 242, 247, 252-253, 288, 305, 322-323
Condemnation of 1277 17-18, 20, 152, 154, 180-189
Confession (sacrament) 10
Contingency 19, 155, 176, 179, 185, 332, 366
Contingent propositions 113, 150, 251, 253
Convertibility of being and goodness 106, 303-305, 310, 317, 318-323
Copulation of terms 68-69
Corruption (of bodies) 43, 74, 158-160, 163, 168-170, 172-173, 211, 218, 221-222, 230, 257,
251-252, 313-315
Decalogue (see Ten Commandments)
Deduction 15, 96, 138, 268
Demonstration 12, 27, 29, 43, 46, 98-99, 102, 121, 147-148, 150, 267-269, 363 (see also First
principles: Of demonstration)
Dialectic 6, 9, 27, 43, 147, 150
Dialecticians 9 (see also Dialectic)
Disputation 6, 7, 10-12, 19
Ordinary and Quodlibetal 10
Divided will 305-306, 325-329
Divine attributes (see God: attributes)
Divine essence (See God: Essence)
Divine grace (See Grace)
Divine ideas (Exemplars, Forms) 13-15, 18, 20, 22, 29, 64-65, 83-84, 87-91, 93, 106-110, 114, 131,
251
Divine illumination 15-16, 27-29, 83-89, 103-115
Divine law 307, 368, 372-374, 375-381 (see also Revelation, Ten Commandments)
Divine omnipotence (see God: omnipotence)
Divine providence (see Providence)
Divine revelation (see Revelation)
Divine simplicity (see God: Simplicity)
Double truth, theory of 17, 180
Doubt 30, 49-50, 55, 85, 117-119, 125-126, 134, 136-137, 147, 150, 261, 263, 311, 330 (see also
Skepticism)
Efficient cause 161-165, 166, 182, 185, 240, 270, 281-282, 290, 304, 315-317, 363
God as first efficient cause 270, 274, 277, 280-282
Elements 31, 35-36, 41, 152, 162-163, 168-170, 185, 241, 281
Epistemology 13, 25, 27-30, 83-150 (see also Abstraction, Illumination, Skepticism)
Equivocation 166, 175, 241, 288-290, 298-299, 344
Esse (see Existence)
Essence 19, 75-76, 78, 175-176, 186, 200-201, 203-204, 211-214, 220, 226-231, 233-235, 236,
238-247, 249-252, 255, 271, 275-278, 279, 304, 319, 321
Divine essence (see God: Essence)
Real distinction between essence and existence 19, 155-156, 201, 227-253, 304
Essence in human knowledge 101, 114, 121-122, 124, 199, 201-202
Eternal law 370
Eternity
Of God (see God: Eternity)
Of the divine ideas 64, 83-84, 88, 104, 110
Of the world 11, 16-17, 171-173, 176-177, 182, 184-186, 189
Ethics 2, 7-8, 11, 13, 23, 25, 28, 151, 303 (see also Practical Philosophy)
Eucharist (Body of Christ, transubstantiation) 16, 222
Evil 14, 38, 40, 178-179, 285, 303-305, 309-310, 314-317, 325-328, 363, 376, 378
Moral evil 304, 311, 355
Natural evil 304
Problem of God’s existence and presence of evil 269, 271, 303-304, 309-310, 313-314
Exemplars (see Divine ideas)
Existence (Act of being, esse) 15, 18-19, 34, 71-73, 75-76, 79-80, 90-96, 105-106, 110-112, 120,
131, 154-156, 158, 159, 161, 164, 166, 182, 201, 210, 213-214, 216-218, 236, 246, 248,
253, 270, 276-278, 304-305, 313, 315, 319-323
God’s existence (see God: Existence)
Real distinction between essence and existence 19, 155-156, 201, 227-253, 304
Experience 13, 15, 84-85, 93-94, 100-101, 108, 129-130, 141, 143-144, 146-147, 150
Faculty of Arts (see also University) 8, 11, 16-17, 23, 180
Fallacy 12, 17, 27, 134-135, 289, 328
Faith 46, 52-54, 103, 113-114, 138, 260, 362
Faith and reason (see Theology: Relationship to philosophy)
Ficta 21, 29, 72-73
Final cause 162, 165
First principle(s)
Of demonstration 27, 29, 98-102, 121-122, 132, 135, 138-141, 143-144, 146-147, 150, 266267, 362-363, 366
Of nature 31, 35, 37, 39
Of natural law (Of practical reason) 362-363, 366, 368-369, 376, 380
Form 14, 48, 70, 76, 78, 91, 106, 120, 133, 158-159, 163-165, 167-170, 175-179, 183, 185, 199,
205, 211, 214, 216, 221, 223, 229-235, 238-241, 244-248, 250, 274-277, 280, 282, 284,
286, 365
Accidental form 158-161, 169, 245, 246, 279
Of angels 17, 239-241, 243
Of God (see God: Form)
Of human beings 19, 153-154, 163, 165, 175, 178, 186-187, 202-205, 211-220, 248,
365 (see also Soul)
Of terms in logic 68-70
Plurality of substantial forms (souls) in human being 153-154
Role in human knowing 12, 16, 36-37, 61, 65, 71, 74, 89-91, 94, 110, 198-202, 209, 217,
237, 296, 302, 317
Subsistent form 154, 205, 297
Substantial form 153, 158-159, 168-170, 173, 234, 245, 246, 275, 279
Unity of substantial form (soul) in human being 19, 21, 154, 247
Formal cause 162, 165 (see also Form)
Formal distinction 19-23, 77-78
Forms (see Divine ideas)
Freedom
Of God (see God: Freedom)
Of Humans (see Free will)
Free will (Freedom) 5-6, 16, 303-306, 325-352
Generation (of bodies) 43, 74, 158-165, 166, 169-170, 172-173, 184, 186, 214, 221-222, 230,
251-252, 270
Genus 18, 47, 59-62, 64-65, 73-74, 76, 79, 81-82, 101-102, 160, 166-167, 169, 199, 202, 218, 227229, 231-235, 237-240, 242-244, 245-249, 277-280, 289, 293
God
Absolute power18, 23, 30
Accidents (not to be found in God) 15, 255-258, 276, 279-280, 283
Being than which nothing greater can be thought 156, 260-262, 266-267
Essence 15, 18, 19, 52, 115, 156, 181, 240, 251, 255, 273, 275-278, 280, 282-284, 286-287,
280, 282-284, 286-287, 289, 292, 300, 307, 254
Eternity 182, 256-257, 284, 292-294, 306, 331-334, 336, 356
Existence 4, 6, 15, 19, 34, 37, 104, 106, 137, 145, 151-152, 156, 181, 240, 242-243, 251,
259-271, 276-281, 289, 300-301, 313, 381
Foreknowledge 181, 306, 331-332, 334-335, 337
Form 274-275, 280-281, 300-301
Freedom 18, 112-113, 177
Goodness 38, 104, 175, 243, 259-260, 262-263, 269-271, 274, 285-287, 291, 295-296, 298,
300, 309, 311-312
Ideas (Exemplars, Forms) (see Divine ideas)
Names of God 282-302
Perfect being 15, 243, 270, 285, 304, 356
Proofs for God’s existence 6, 156, 260-271
Providence (see Providence)
Simplicity 15, 18-19, 36, 155-156, 238, 250-251, 253, 271-282, 283-284, 288, 303-302,
304, 334-335
Substance 255-256, 258, 272, 277-280, 284-285, 292, 300 (see also Substance: Simple
substance)
Will 112, 143-144, 148, 176-177, 182, 294, 306, 320-321, 372-373, 377, 379
Good
Goodness of creatures 243, 259-260, 270, 274, 280, 304, 309, 313, 315-316, 357
Goodness of God (see God: Goodness)
Object of desire (Object of the will) 40, 104, 106, 187, 259-260, 270, 311, 317, 350-353,
358-360, 363-364
The Good (see Happiness)
(see also Common good, Convertibility of being and goodness)
Grace 16, 28, 53, 188, 268, 305-306, 337, 339-340, 369
Guild (universitas) 8 (see also University)
Haecceitas 18, 19, 21 (This-ness) (see also Individuation)
Happiness (Summum bonum, The Good, Ultimate end) 17, 33, 39, 42, 115, 124, 188, 214, 267, 303,
306, 351, 353-360, 376, 378
Holy Trinity (see Trinity)
Human law (see Positive law)
Humanism 24
Hylic intellect (see Agent intellect)
Hylomorphism 10, 151, 229 (see also Form, Matter, Soul: Relationship to body)
Ideas (see Divine ideas)
Illumination (see Divine illumination)
Imagination 59, 61, 72, 95, 107, 114, 133, 143, 153, 179, 202, 205-206, 208, 212, 215, 355
Immortality (see Soul: Immortality)
Impetus (in physics) 152, 190-194
Indifference (of universal concepts) 22, 70, 72, 81, 236
Individual difference 177-178
Individuation 11, 17-19, 21, 23, 90, 152, 154-155, 203-205, 217, 231, 234, 237-238, 242-244, 247
(see also Haecceitas, Individual difference, Matter: Designated matter)
Induction 15, 29, 101, 144
Intellect 16, 30, 74, 88-97, 100-101, 103-107, 110-115, 121-128, 130-132, 136, 143-144, 146-147,
153-154, 186, 198-206, 209-223, 237-238, 273, 301, 349-355, 360, 362
Relation to Will 113, 349-352
Unity of the intellect 11, 16-17, 154, 175-176, 186-187, 198-206, 215-223, 237
(See also Agent (active) intellect, Potential (passive) intellect)
Intellective soul (see Soul: Rational soul)
Intelligences (see Angels)
Interaction problem 153 (see also Soul: Relationship to Body)
Internal senses (see Senses: Internal)
Justice 260, 307, 317, 340
Latin Averroism 11, 16-17, 152, 154, 306 (see also Intellect: Unity of the Intellect)
Law (see Divine law, Eternal law, Natural law, Positive law)
Logic 4-8, 10-12, 18, 21-25, 27-28, 29, 40, 43-44, 63, 66, 68, 70, 72, 74, 151, 304
Manichaeism 2, 303, 327-328
Material cause 162, 165 (see also Matter)
Mathematics 8, 43-44, 148, 318 (see also Numbers)
Matter 16, 22, 76, 78, 88, 90-92, 97, 133, 141, 154, 157-170, 173, 176, 178, 182-188, 192, 199,
201-202, 211, 213-215, 217-221, 223, 229-235, 237-241, 242, 243-248, 250-251, 255, 257,
274-276, 280, 282, 284, 286, 297, 320
Common matter (Non-designated matter, materia communis) 91-92, 231
Designated matter (materia signata) 91, 231, 234-235, 239, 242, 245
Principle of individuation 17-18, 90, 96, 152, 183, 185, 203-206, 231, 247, 276
(see also Prime matter)
Memory 15, 99-100, 108, 128, 150, 153
Mental act theory 21, 22, 29 (see also Universals)
Metaphysics 2, 8, 10-11, 17-18, 22-23, 25, 28, 43-44, 53, 149, 151-152, 155
Mind (see Philosophy of Mind, Soul)
Miracle 146, 149, 152
Monasticism 5-7
Moral philosophy 17, 37, 43 (see also Ethics)
Moral theology 16, 303
Native form 65
Natural law 307, 361-381
Natural science (see Science: Natural Science)
Natural theology 152, 156 (see also God)
Negative theology (apophatic theology) 6, 10 (see also God: Names of God)
Neoplatonism 4-5, 8, 12-13, 28, 303 (see also Platonism)
Nominalism 7, 11, 20-24, 29-30, 70 (see also Universals)
Numbers 30, 60, 84-86, 92, 96, 100, 118, 170, 277
Occasionalism 10
Ockham's Razor 20-21, 73
Ontological proof (for God's existence) 6 (see also God: Proofs for God’s existence)
Ontology 13
Original sin 16, 28, 368
Participation 13, 84, 88, 91, 131 (see also Divine ideas)
Particulars 7, 13-14, 19-21, 32, 64, 74-78, 90-91, 96, 100-101, 106, 131, 155, 175-176, 200-201,
208-210, 230-231, 275-276, 278, 290, 297-298
Perception (Sense perception) 15, 48, 84-85, 93-95, 99, 105, 114, 117, 119, 124-128, 130-132,
136, 141, 143, 153, 201, 209, 278 (see also Senses: External)
Perfect being (see God: Perfect being)
Phantasm 109, 129, 186, 205-206 (see also Imagination)
Philosophy of mind 2, 17, 19 (See also Psychology)
Physics 18, 25, 43-44, 152, 246 (see also Impetus, Science: Natural science)
Platonism 9, 14-15, 33-42, 88, 93, 128, 153, 235 (see also Neo-Platonism)
Plurality of substantial forms (see Form: Plurality of substantial forms in human being)
Positive law (Human law) 303, 307, 368, 369-374, 377, 379
Potential intellect (Passive intellect) 187, 199-200, 202
Practical philosophy 25, 303-381
Practical reason 349, 352, 363, 366
Predestination 6, 305, 337
Prime Matter 160-161, 169, 192, 233, 234, 241, 251, 281-282, 285
Privation
Of being 159-162, 199, 228, 278
Of good 14, 304, 309 (see also Evil)
Proofs for God’s existence (see God: Proofs for God’s existence)
Properties of terms (see Terms: Properties)
Prophecy 178-179
Providence 5, 175-176, 295, 305-306, 315, 331-335
Psychology (Philosophy of the Soul) 8, 10, 48, 195-223 (see also Soul)
Quodlibetal disputation (see Disputation: Quodlibetal)
Rational soul (see Soul: Rational soul)
Rational theology (see Theology)
Realism (theory of universals) 11, 21, 24, 28-29, 70, 153 (see also Universals)
Responsibility 7, 304 (see also Free will)
Revelation 4, 8, 28, 46-47, 49-51, 53-55 (see also Scripture, Theology)
Sacred doctrine (see Theology)
Scholasticism 7, 11-12, 14, 20, 24
Science
Natural science 8, 17-18, 146, 148-149, 245 (see also Physics)
Theology as a science (see Theology: As a science)
Scripture 11, 40-41, 46-48, 52-57, 148, 180, 272-275
Secular clergy 11, 20
Semantics 27-28 (see also Terms)
Sensation (see Senses: Role of sensation in human knowing)
Senses
Internal (interior) 105, 143 (see also Common sense, Imagination, Memory)
Of Scripture 55-57
Role of sensation in human knowing 15, 48, 54, 61, 65, 84-85, 89-90, 93-95, 99-101, 105109, 114, 119, 121-133, 136-137, 143, 146-147, 150, 196-198, 200-201, 213, 216-217, 237,
317
Sensitive soul (see Soul: Sensitive soul)
Separate substances (see Angels)
Signification of terms 7, 12, 66-67, 69, 74-75, 79, 81, 146, 167 (see also Being: Being of reason)
Simplicity of God (see God: Simplicity)
Singulars 21, 62, 64-65, 70, 72-73, 96, 100-101, 131, 204-205, 225, 235-237
Knowledge of singulars 22, 47, 73, 95-96, 131, 176, 178-179, 181, 211, 235, 335
Singular terms 27, 80
Skepticism 23-24, 27, 29-30, 117, 143 (see also Doubt)
Soul
Eternity 186
Form of human beings 153-154, 163, 211-214, 229, 232, 245, 264, 365 (see also
Form: Of human beings)
Immateriality 36, 60, 207-209, 214-215, 219, 238-239
Immortality of soul (of intellect) 154, 202, 243, 256, 362
Of celestial bodies 177-179, 184
Rational soul (Intellective soul) 36, 104, 153-154, 175, 203-205, 212, 214, 216, 232, 241,
246, 349, 353, 365
Relationship to Body 38, 87, 153-154, 163, 175, 178, 186, 195-197, 209-218, 220, 229, 233,
234, 241
Sensitive soul 153, 175-176, 183, 214, 232, 353
Vegetative soul (Nutritive soul) 153, 214, 353
Species 18, 32, 59-64, 68, 70, 73, 74, 78, 81-82, 91, 100-101, 131, 164, 167, 170, 175-176, 183,
185, 203-205, 212-215, 217, 226-229, 231-235, 237-240, 242-245, 247-249, 275, 278, 285,
293, 321
Object of human knowing (how should I phrase this) (Intelligible species) 88-96, 107-109,
124, 132-133, 143, 146, 206
Specific difference 18, 233, 242
Stoicism 4, 25, 35, 37
Logical theory 5, 7, 12
Substance 18, 21, 60-61, 64, 70, 75-78, 92, 132-133, 141, 153-155, 157-158, 164-173, 175, 186,
199-200, 205, 211, 221-223, 228-229, 231, 234, 239, 242-246, 247, 248-249, 279, 298, 318320, 363
Composite substance 161, 164, 199, 229-230, 234, 239
Separate substances (see Angels)
Simple substance 199, 229, 239
Substantial change 151, 158, 234
Substantial form (see Form: Substantial form)
Summa (type of treatise) 11
Supposition of terms 66-70, 73-74, 76, 80-81, 149
Syllogism 12, 43, 46, 72, 77, 96, 140, 252, 268
Ten Commandments (Decalogue) 307, 375-381
Term 5, 12, 21, 27-29, 66-70, 74, 77, 79-81, 83, 110, 113-114, 122, 146-147, 149-150, 238,
239, 251, 266, 363, 376, 378
Middle term 46-47, 140, 268-269
Properties (see Copulation, Signification, Supposition)
Theology (Sacred doctrine) 5-6, 9-11, 20, 23-24, 115, 305, 307
As a science 27-28, 43-57
Relationship to philosophy 3-4, 9, 16-18, 27, 34-35, 45-47, 49-51, 53, 188, 306
(see also Moral theology, Natural theology, Negative theology)
Transubstantiation (see Eucharist)
Trinity 5, 175-176, 256-257
Unity of the intellect (see Intellect: Unity of the intellect)
Universals 5, 7, 12-15, 20-22, 27-29, 59-82, 90-91, 94, 96, 100-101, 107-108, 131, 205, 211, 214,
217, 225-226, 231, 235-237, 335 (see also, Divine ideas, Nominalism, Realism)
(see also Genus, Difference, Property, Species, Accident I’m not sure why you put these
words down here under universals?)
University 5, 7-11, 20, 23
Univocal meaning 166, 247, 288-290, 298-299
Validity 7, 17, 27, 78, 135, 140, 146, 252, 289
Vegetative soul (see Soul: Vegetative soul)
Veridicality 30
Via antiqua vs. via moderna 23 (see also Nominalism)
Will 16, 28, 53, 118, 153, 187-188, 304, 314-317, 341-342, 349-352, 359-360, 376
Relation to intellect 113, 349-352
(see also Divided will, Free will)
Wisdom 16, 31, 34, 38-39, 50-51, 102, 114, 181, 289, 350, 355