Third Distinction
Fourth Part - Questions about the Rational Soul1. Question: Does the rational soul have a natural appetite for doing good? Solution: go to the definition of the Goodness of light.
2. Question: Does the rational soul have as much natural appetite for a great intellectual act as for a great act of the will? Solution: go to the definition of the Greatness of light.
3. Question: Does the soul joined to the body make the body last? Solution: go to the definition of the Duration of light.
4.Question: After death, does the human soul still have the same power it had while it was in the body? Solution: go to the definition of the Power of light.
5. Question: Does a separated soul naturally have appetite for remembering and understanding things? Solution: go to the definition of the Wisdom, or Instinct of light.
6. Question: Does the will's appetite desire the Beloved sooner and more fervently than it desires good things? Solution: go to the definition of the Will, or Appetite of light.
7. Question: Does the soul have innate virtue? Solution: go to the definition of the Virtue of light.
8. Question: Is the intellect more readily attracted to what it understands than to the truth? Solution: go to the definition of the Truth of light.
9. Question: Why does the intellect want knowledge? Solution: go to the definition of the Glory, or Delight of light.
10. Question: Does the soul have innate, intrinsic difference with which it performs distinct acts? Solution: go to the definition of the Difference of light.
11. Question: Does the soul have innate, intrinsic concordance with which it performs concordant acts? Solution: go to the definition of the Concordance of light.
12. Question: Given that the soul is not composed of contrary things, why are the intellect and will sometimes in opposition? Solution: go to the definition of the Contrariety of light.
13. Question: Does the soul have primordial intelligibility in which it gives rise to the intelligibilities of other beings? Solution: go to the definition of the substantial Principle of light.
14. Question: Is there any matter in the soul? Solution: go to the definition of the formal Principle of light.
15. Question: Does the soul have quantity? Solution: go to the definition of the quantity of light.
16. Question: Does the soul truly indicate God? Solution: go to the definition of the quality of light.
17. Question: Does each power of the soul have its own innate relations? Solution: go to the definition of the relative Principle of light.
18. Question: Can the intellect act against ignorance? Solution: go to the definition of the active Principle of light.
19. Question: Solution: Does the intellect belong to the passive genus? go to the definition of the passive Principle of light.
20. Question: Do the soul and its powers have an internal structure? Solution: go to the definition of the situational Principle of light.
21. Question: Why does the intellect understand things sequentially, given that its essence is unmovable and inalterable? Solution: go to the definition of the time producing Principle of light..
22. Question: Is the Soul located in the body and vice versa? Solution: go to the definition of the local Principle of light.
23. Question: Does the Intellect have an intrinsic habit whereby it habituates itself with its extrinsic habit? Solution: go to the definition of the habitual Principle of light.
24. Question: Is there any innate medium within the Intellect? Solution: go to the definition of the Middle of light.
25. Question: With what does the intellect come to rest? Solution: go to the definition of the End of light.
26. Question: Is the intellect an image of God in existence and action? Solution: go to the definition of the Majority of light.
27. Question: Are the intellect, memory and will equal powers in the soul? Solution: go to the definition of the Equality of light.
28. Question: Given that the intellect has innate instinct, why does it make errors? Solution: go to the definition of the Minority of light.
29. Question: Does the intellect reproduce species without corrupting itself? Solution: Go to Rule B in the second distinction.
30. Question: Can one soul generate another soul? Solution: Go to the second paragraph of Rule B.
31. Question: Can a soul joined to a body move by itself? Solution: Go to the third paragraph of Rule B.
32. Question: Does the intellect make the species it acquires intelligible within its own essence? Solution: Go to the fourth paragraph of Rule B.
33. Question: Does the essence of a soul joined to a body cause a human essence? Solution: Go to the fifth paragraph of Rule B.
34. Question: Does the soul join the body to constitute a human being? Solution: Go to the sixth paragraph of Rule B.
35. Question: Does the soul encounter old vegetative and sensitive powers in the body it joins? Solution: Go to the seventh paragraph of Rule B.
36. Question: Does each power of the soul have its own innate act? Solution: Go to the eighth paragraph of Rule B.
37. Question: Does the intellect act inwardly by necessity and outwardly by contingency?? Solution: Go to the ninth paragraph of Rule B.
38. Question: What is the soul? Solution: Go to the first paragraph of Rule C.
39. Question: What are the natural and coessential inner parts of the soul and its powers? Solution: Go to the second paragraph of Rule C.
40. Question: Is the soul joined to the body moved along its course by man? Solution: Go to the third paragraph of Rule C.
41. Question: What does the soul joined to the body have in the powers under it? Solution: Go to the fourth paragraph of Rule C.
42. Question: Does the intellect have a general primordial act of understanding? Solution: Go to the first paragraph of Rule D.
43. Question: What does the soul consist of? Solution: Go to the second paragraph of Rule D.
44. Question: Does the soul belong to man? Solution: Go to the third paragraph of Rule D.
45. Question: Why does the soul exist? Solution: Go to the first paragraph of Rule E.
46. Question: Does the soul exist as much for itself as for its purpose? Solution: The second paragraph of Rule B.
47. Question: What is the soul's quantity? Solution: Go to Rule F.
48. Question: What are the soul's qualities? Solution: Rule G.
49. Question: When does the soul exist? Solution: Rule H.
50. Question: Where is the soul? Solution: Rule I.
51. Question: How does the soul exist? Solution: Rule K.
52. Question: What does the soul exist with? Solution: Rule K.