Contents
Book One
[Third Distinction. See Appendix
Fourth Distinction
First Part
On the Predication of Otherness in Divine Generation
Single Question: Whether this proposition is true ‘God generates another God’ | Num. 1 |
Second Part
On the Predication of the Name of God in the Divine Persons
Single Question: Whether this proposition is true ‘God is Father and Son and Holy Spirit’ | Num. 7 |
I. To the Question | Num. 9 |
II. To the Principal Argument | Num. 14 |
Appendix
[From the Cambridge Reportatio]
Fifth Distinction
First Part
On the Generation of the Divine Essence
Single Question: Whether the divine essence generates is or generated Num. 1 | |
I. To the Question | |
A. Opinion of Abbot Joachim against Peter Lombard | Num. 8 |
B. Against the Opinion of Abbott Joachim | Num. 10 |
C. For the Opinion of Peter Lombard | Num. 12 |
II. To the Principal Arguments | Num. 25 |
Second Part
On the Generation of the Son
Single Question: Whether the Son is generated from the substance of the Father | Num. 46 |
I. The Opinion of Others | Num. 52 |
II. Scotus’ own Response to the Question | |
A. The Son is not Generated from the Substance of the Father as from Matter or Quasi-matter | Num. 93 |
B. The Son is truly from the Substance of the Father | Num. 98 |
C. How Relation and Essence can exist in the Same Person | Num. 106 |
III. To the Arguments of the Opinion of Others | Num. 142 |
IV. To the Arguments | Num. 150 |
Sixth Distinction
Single Question: Whether God the Father generated God the Son by Will | Num. 1 |
I. To the Question | Num. 7 |
A. How the Father generates the Son willingly | Num. 8 |
B. How the Father does not Generate the Son by Will as by Productive Principle | Num. 16 |
II. To the Principal Arguments | Num. 30 |
Seventh Distinction
Question 1: Whether the Power of Generating in the Father is something Absolute or a Property of the Father | Num. 1 |
I. The Opinions of Others | |
A. First Opinion | Num. 9 |
B. Second Opinion | Num. 18 |
II. To the Question | |
A. On the Distinction of Powers | Num. 27 |
B. The Father’s Power of Generating is Something Absolute | Num. 35 |
C. To the Form of the Question | Num. 65 |
III. To the Arguments | |
A. To the Principal Arguments | Num. 66 |
B. To the Arguments against the First Opinion | Num. 74 |
Question 2: Whether there can be several Sons in Divine Reality | Num. 92 |
I. The Opinions of Others | Num. 93 |
II. To the Question | Num. 101 |
Eighth Distinction
First Part
On the Simplicity of God
Question 1: Whether God is supremely Simple | Num. 1 |
I. To the Question | Num. 5 |
A. Proof of the Simplicity of God through Particular Middle Terms | Num. 6 |
B. Proof of the Simplicity of God through Common Middle Terms | Num. 16 |
II. To the Principal Arguments | Num. 20 |
Question 2: Whether any Creature is Simple | Num. 27 |
I. To the Question | |
A. The Opinion of Others | Num. 29 |
B. Scotus’ own Opinion | Num. 32 |
II. To the Arguments | Num. 35 |
Question 3: Whether along with the Divine Simplicity stands the fact that God, or anything formally said of God, is in a Genus | Num. 39 |
I. First Opinion | |
A. Exposition of the Opinion | Num. 44 |
B. Reasons against the Opinion | Num. 51 |
C. To the Arguments for the Opinion | Num. 80 |
II. Second Opinion | Num. 90 |
III. Scotus’ own Opinion | Num. 95 |
A. Proof of the First Part of the Opinion | Num. 96 |
B. Proof of the Second Part of the Opinion | |
1. By the Reasons of Augustine and Avicenna | Num. 97 |
2. By what is Proper to God | Num. 100 |
3. Statement and Refutation of Some People’s Proof | Num. 116 |
IV. To the Arguments for the Second Opinion | Num. 128 |
V. To the Principal Arguments | Num. 136 |
Question 4: Whether along with the Divine Simplicity can stand a Distinction of Essential Perfections preceding the Act of the Intellect | Num. 157 |
I. The Opinions of Others | Num. 159 |
A. First Opinion | Num. 160 |
B. Second Opinion | Num. 174 |
II. To the Question | Num. 191 |
III. To the Principal Argument | Num. 218 |
Appendix
[From the Cambridge Reportatio]
Second Part
On the Immutability of God
Single Question: Whether only God is Immutable | Num. 223 |
I. God is Simply Immutable | Num. 226 |
II. Nothing else besides God has Immutability | Num. 230 |
A. Of the Intention of the Philosophers | |
1. The Opinion of Henry of Ghent | Num. 232 |
2. Scotus’ own Opinion | Num. 250 |
B. Reasons for and against the True Intention of the Philosophers | |
1. Reasons on behalf of this Intention | Num. 259 |
2. Reasons against this Intention | Num. 263 |
C. Scotus’ own Opinion | Num. 292 |
III. To the Principal Arguments | |
A. To the Principal Argument | Num. 294 |
B. To the Reasons for the Intention of the Philosophers | Num. 302 |
Ninth Distinction
Single Question: Whether the Generation of the Son in Divine Reality is Eternal | Num. 1 |
I. Solution of the Question | Num. 6 |
II. To the Principal Arguments | Num. 12 |
Tenth Distinction
Single Question: Whether the Holy Spirit is produced through the Act and Mode of the Will | Num. 1 |
I. Solution of the Question | Num. 6 |
II. Doubts | Num. 10 |
A. Response of Henry to the Two first Doubts | Num. 13 |
B. Against the Response of Henry | Num. 25 |
C. Scotus’ own Response | Num. 30 |
III. To the Principal Arguments | Num. 59 |
Appendix
[Scotus’ extended annotation to n.41 and from the Cambridge Reportatio]