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The Ordinatio of John Duns Scotus
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Ordinatio. Book 1. Distinctions 1 and 2.
Book One: First and Second Distinctions
First Distinction. Second Part. On Enjoying in Itself
Question 2. Whether when the end has been apprehended by the intellect the will must necessarily enjoy it
I. To the Question
C. Scotus’ own Opinion

C. Scotus’ own Opinion

143. As for the first article [n.82] I say that just as the will enjoys non-necessarily the things that are for the end, so also does it non-necessarily enjoy an end apprehended obscurely or in general.

144. As for the second article [n.82] I concede along with the first opinion [n.86] that the will does not necessarily enjoy an end obscurely seen and in particular; nor is there nor should there be an argument against the first opinion as to the conclusion, but argument that the reasons put in the first article conclude against the second article, if they are valid [nn.134-135]. But how will someone who relies on them in the first article solve them in the second? Nay even the reasoning of them in the second article [n.86] seems to contradict the first article [n.83].

145. As for the third article [n.82] I say that an elevated will does not necessarily enjoy, as far as depends on its own part, an end thus seen.

146. As for the fourth [n.82] I say that a will not supernaturally elevated can enjoy the end.