Class Handouts--Phil 527


1. Introduction to Scholastic ontology
7. Whether creation requires an infinite power

2. What an efficient cause is
8. Whether creation is something real in the creature

3. The types of efficient causes
9. Whether a being that is 'from another' can be eternal

4. Whether action is the causality of an efficient cause
10. Whether a being diverse in essence from God could have always existed

5. Corruptive efficient causality
11. Whether the world is such that it has always existed

6. Whether creation is possible