Class Handouts--Phil 618

• Introduction to Scholastic Ontology

• Disputation 5, Section 1: Are all things that exist or are able to exist singular and individual?

• Disputation 5, Section 2: Is it the case that in all natures the individual and singular thing as such adds something over and beyond the common, i.e., specific, nature?

• Disputation 5, Section 3: Is designated matter the principle of individuation in material substances?

• Disputation 5, Section 4: Is the substantial form the principle of individuation in material substances?

• Disputation 5, Section 5: Is the principle of individuation the existence of the singular thing?

• Disputation 5, Section 6: What in the end is the principle of individuation in all created substances?

• Disputation 17, Section 1: What an efficient cause is

• Disputation 17, Section 2: The types of efficient cause

• Disputation 18, Section 10: Whether action is the proper notion of causing for an efficient cause, i.e., its causality

• Disputation 18, Section 11: Whether an efficient cause corrupts or destroys a thing by effecting something, and how