Natural Desire And Natural End: A Critical Comparison Of Cajetan, Soto And Bañez

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March, 1999

Table of Contents

Preface
vii

Chapter 1. The Source of a Divergence
1

Chapter 2. Cajetan’s First Account of the Desire to See God
23
  A. Aquinas’s Text (1 ST q. 12, a. 1)
23
  B. Cajetan’s Commentary
32
  C. Analysis of Cajetan’s Text
46
   — 1. What was the core of Cajetan’s solution?
47
   — 2. What of theological interest followed from this core?
51
   — 3. Why two “ways of considering” intellectual creatures?
62
   — 4. Which consideration was St. Thomas using?
69
   — 5. Given the above, what was Cajetan’s solution to the second dubium?
71
   — 6. Given the above, what was Cajetan’s solution to the first dubium?
72
 D. Concluding evaluation
74

Chapter 3. Beatitudo and Cajetan’s Second Account of the Desire
77
  A. A short primer on beatitudo
77
   — 1. The sense of `beatitudo’
77
   — 2. The ratio beatitudinis on the general level
80
   — 3. Transition: the job of further rationes
82
   — 4. The rationes beatitudinis on the special level
84
   — 5. This life and the next
86
   — 6. Concrete ideal vs. what one settles for
87
  B. 2/1 ST q. 3, a. 6; Aquinas’s text
90
  C. Cajetan’s commentary on article 6
93
  D. 2/1 ST q. 3, a. 7; Aquinas’s text
105
  E. Cajetan’s commentary on article 7
106
  F. 2/1 ST q. 3, a. 8; Aquinas’s text
109
  G. Cajetan’s commentary on article 8
112
  H. Concluding evaluation
121

Chapter 4. Cajetan on Man’s Potency to Supernatural Gifts
123
  A. Nature, art, and the supernatural
125
  B. Connatural vs. supernatural in 1 ST q. 12, a. 5 and in the commentary thereon
138
  C. The hidden end in Aquinas’s texts
153
  D. Cajetan’s explanation of the hiddenness in his commentary on 1 ST q. 1, a. 1
157
  E. Quaestio 1 of De potentia neutra
165
  F. Quaestio 2 of De potentia neutra
175
  G. Concluding evaluation
194

Chapter 5. Dominico Soto: in the Cause of an Augustinian End
197
  A. NG I, c. 3. On man conceived purely in his natural features
199
  B. NG I, c. 4. What duties a man with only his natural features could perform
213
  C. Soto attacks Cajetan on `natural end’
220
  D. Concluding remarks
244

Chapter 6. Dominic Bañez: Triumph of a Scholastic Nature
249
  A. First disputation — Is it true that a created intellect can see God clearly?
252
   — 1. The second objection and Bañez’s response
254
   — 2. The sixth objection and Bañez’s response
269
  B. Second disputation — what to make of the desiderium naturae
273
   — 1. Bañez’s first conclusion
278
   — 2. Bañez’s second conclusion
281

After word
305

Bibliography
311

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