Aula Scholastica 

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

The opinions are set forth. With the notion of universals established, there arises the notable question of whether universals have some objective value — that is, whether any entity or nature corresponds to the words and concepts of universals. Four systems have existed on this matter: Nominalism, Conceptualism, Absolute Realism, and Moderate Realism. Nominalism holds that universals exist only in names — that they are mere breath of the voice; Conceptualism maintains that t