FIGURE 5
Questions about X.
The things said about the questions of the previous figures also
apply to the propositions of the figure of opposites, or X. Now it
has as many parts as there are principles in X. and each has two questions:
so let us begin with the questions of the first principle, and then do
the others in sequence.
Predestination B.
Question 1: Is the opposition between predestination and free will
real, or does it merely exist in the rational mind?
Question 2: Does the influence of predestination give rise as much
to negation as to affirmation?
Solution: [Predestination, free will, reality.][Contrariety, affirmation,
negation.]
Being C.
Question 1: In the intention of nature, does being have priority
over essence?
Question 2: Is transmutation desirable while retaining numerical
identity?
Solution: [Being, perfection, reality.][Beginning, end, affirmation.][Fire,
fire.]
Perfection D.
Question 1: Is there a greater act of perfecting in the soul's essence
than in its powers?
Question 2: Can perfection be great without perfectly perfecting
something?
Solution: [Perfection, reality, power.][God, beginning, end.][Perfection,
justice, generosity.]
Merit E.
Question 1: Are the acts of intellect and will greater in concordance
than in contrariety?
Question 2: Can merit be greater in concordance than is guilt in
contrariety?
Solution: [Merit, perfection, imperfection.][Beginning, end, majority.]
Supposition F.
Question 1: Is supposition equally an act of both the intellect
and the will?
Question 2: Does supposition originate in the soul's essence or
in its powers?
Solution: [Supposition, being, perfection.][Beginning, end, doubt.]
Immediate G.
Question 1: Does man as a person exist immediately between form
and matter?
Question 2: Is universal essence immediately identical to its particular
essence?
Solution: [Immediate, reality, reason.][Operation, beginning, end.]
Reality H.
Question 1: Is a universal greater in reality, than in the rational
mind?
Question 2: Is predestination greater in reality than is free will
in the rational mind?
Solution: [Reality, predestination, free will.][Beginning, end,
majority.]
Power I.
Question 1: Do the powers of the rational soul still exist after
death, or does their virtue remain in the soul's being?
Question 2: Are the powers of the soul passive under the soul's
essence, or under the virtue of their objects?
Solution: [Power, merit, object.][Operation, end, majority.]
Free Will K.
Question 1: Is free will as great in the rational mind as it is
in reality?
Question 2: Is freedom as great in unwillingness as in willingness?
Solution: [Free will, merit, guilt.][Creature, operation, affirmation.]
Privation L.
Question 1: Is privation a real being?
Question 2: Is privation more opposed to the middle, or to the end
of its compound?
Solution: [Privation, being, reality.][Contrariety, middle, end.]
Defect M.
Question 1: Is imperfection greater in a contrary difference than
in a concordant difference?
Question 2: Is magnitude greater in perfection than in imperfection?
Solution: [Defect, mediate, object.][God, end, majority.]
Guilt N.
Question 1: Is guilt real, or merely in the rational mind?
Question 2: Does guilt originate in the soul's nature, or in reason?
Solution: [Guilt, reality, reason.][Beginning, majority, minority.]
Demonstration O.
Question 1: Is demonstration by majority greater than demonstration
by equality?
Question 2: Can a greater demonstration be made of spiritual things
than of things that one can sense?
Solution: [Demonstration, predestination, supposition.][God, beginning,
concordance.]
Mediated P.
Question 1: Can every response be diversified through some medium?
Question 2: Can a medium be without an end?
Solution: [Mediated, immediate, defect.][Affirmation, doubt, negation.]
Reason Q.
Question 1: Is there any essential difference between real reason
and objective reason?
Question 2: Is reason greater in the soul's essence than in its
powers?
Solution: [Reason, being, reality.][Creature, operation, beginning.]
Object R.
Question 1: Can objects be affirmed as much with unwillingness as
with willingness, and in willingness as much as when one considers them
objectively?
Question 2: Can objects constrain the freedom of the soul's powers?
Solution: [Object, reality, free will.][God, operation, beginning.]
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