Aula Scholastica 

The vital and immanent operation of the soul by which something is made manifest (to the soul). First condition: has to proceed from the sensitive soul at the very least. For this reason cognition is repugnant to all things that lack a sensitive soul; but where a sensitive soul is present so is the power of cognition. Since this operation proceeds from the soul, its considered vital. As psychology explains, it belongs to the nature of a vital act that it be immanent. For an o

Having presented, very schematically, Molina’s doctrine and — as a necessary counterpoint — that of Báñez, let us now justify in what sense we can maintain that Molina, contrary to Báñez, moves in rationalist positions with regard to the theme of divine voluntarism — in which, in sum, what one attempts to elucidate is which divine attribute holds preeminence: will or intellect. Because if we consider God as an absolutely free will in his omnipotence, any rationalist restricti

The diverse forms of Realism. Those who held that universals actually exist in the nature of things divided into different opinions. Plato1, since he denied that true science can be given of singulars — which are in perpetual flux — and yet wished to avoid the error of the sensualists, invented certain universal natures separated from singulars, which he called ideas, and of which science treats. Universals, therefore, are certain forms separated from singulars, subsisting in