March, 1999
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. The Source of a Divergence
Chapter 2. Cajetan’s First Account of the Desire to See God
A. Aquinas’s Text (1 ST q. 12, a. 1)
C. Analysis of Cajetan’s Text
— 1. What was the core of Cajetan’s solution?
— 2. What of theological interest followed from this core?
— 3. Why two “ways of considering” intellectual creatures?
— 4. Which consideration was St. Thomas using?
— 5. Given the above, what was Cajetan’s solution to the second dubium?
— 6. Given the above, what was Cajetan’s solution to the first dubium?
Chapter 3. Beatitudo and Cajetan’s Second Account of the Desire
A. A short primer on beatitudo
— 1. The sense of `beatitudo’
— 2. The ratio beatitudinis on the general level
— 3. Transition: the job of further rationes
— 4. The rationes beatitudinis on the special level
— 5. This life and the next
— 6. Concrete ideal vs. what one settles for
B. 2/1 ST q. 3, a. 6; Aquinas’s text
C. Cajetan’s commentary on article 6
D. 2/1 ST q. 3, a. 7; Aquinas’s text
E. Cajetan’s commentary on article 7
F. 2/1 ST q. 3, a. 8; Aquinas’s text
G. Cajetan’s commentary on article 8
Chapter 4. Cajetan on Man’s Potency to Supernatural Gifts
A. Nature, art, and the supernatural
B. Connatural vs. supernatural in 1 ST q. 12, a. 5 and in the commentary thereon
C. The hidden end in Aquinas’s texts
D. Cajetan’s explanation of the hiddenness in his commentary on 1 ST q. 1, a. 1
E. Quaestio 1 of De potentia neutra
F. Quaestio 2 of De potentia neutra
Chapter 5. Dominico Soto: in the Cause of an Augustinian End
A. NG I, c. 3. On man conceived purely in his natural features
B. NG I, c. 4. What duties a man with only his natural features could perform
C. Soto attacks Cajetan on `natural end’
Chapter 6. Dominic Bañez: Triumph of a Scholastic Nature
A. First disputation — Is it true that a created intellect can see God clearly?
— 1. The second objection and Bañez’s response
— 2. The sixth objection and Bañez’s response
B. Second disputation — what to make of the desiderium naturae
— 1. Bañez’s first conclusion
— 2. Bañez’s second conclusion
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