Sydney Penner

"Nam et legentibus euenit et mihi saepissime ut perlecta pagina uel epistula nesciam quid legerim et repetam." - Augustinus, De Trinitate XI.15

A word of warning: I created these files for my own purposes, i.e., without paying much attention to what would make them more or less useful to others. The import of that ranges from the relatively inconsequential fact that some of the files contain footnotes only intelligible to me to the more consequential fact that some of the translations verge on being useless or worse to any reader but me. For example, I sometimes translate terms with their cognates without a word of explanation, even though the cognate is clearly misleading if taken in its modern sense. The translations were also usually done in a hurry, mostly for the sake of giving me some idea of the outline of discussion, i.e., I know perfectly well that at least some of the translations are shoddy jobs rife with errors. (That said, if someone notices an error likely to have philosophical consequence, I would be happy to hear about it. The error might, after all, have resulted from my intrinsic ignorance rather than from the external conditions of translating.)

Some of these texts, however, are relatively difficult to procure, so I thought there might be some point in making them available. All of them contain the Latin text (some of them contain only the Latin text and some mostly). Even where one has access to the books in question, it is sometimes useful to have texts that can be electronically searched. So with appropriate heed to my warnings, these texts might be useful to one or two individuals with arcane interests.

Incidentally, I expect to add more texts, so it may be worth checking back.

NB: I plan to add html versions of many of the texts here, but in general it will be better to use the pdf versions. Due to a quirk of how the typesetting software I use works, files with parallel columns are not indexed properly and so searches will not return all the results they should (searches for phrases are especially vulnerable to this). Basically what happens is that indexing programs go to the first line of the second column after reading the first line of the first column instead of going to the second line of the first column. Hence, I plan to add html versions that are not susceptible to this problem. But the html versions are likely to be formatted dreadfully, are more likely to contain errors, and are less likely to be updated. Locating the pdf version of an html file found through a search should be straightforward.

Francisco Suarez

De Angelis

Lib. VII, c. 6 - Whether every sin of the will presupposes come defect in the practical intellect
Lib. VII, c. 10 - Whether the first sin of pride in Lucifer was an excessive or inordinate appetite for his own natural happiness (html)

De Fine Hominis

Introduction
Disp. 1, sect. 1 - In what the causality of an end consists with respect to human will
Disp. 1, sect. 2 - Whether the causality of an end in our will is only with respect to means or also with respect to the end itself
Disp. 1, sect. 3 - Whether an end exercises causality under the aspect of cognized good
Disp. 1, sect. 4 - Under what aspect of good an end moves and, consequently, whether means participate in the causality of an end
Disp. 1, sect. 5 - How the end is related to the adequate object of the will
Disp. 1, sect. 6 - What kinds of ends there are
Disp. 2, sect. 1 - Concerning actions of the will which are on account of an end
Disp. 2, sect. 2 - Whether acts of the will are necessarily for the sake of an end and consequently whether they are properly human acts
Disp. 2, sect. 3 - Whether a human being acts for the sake of an end in actions which do not proceed from the will
Disp. 2, sect. 4 - In how many modes it happens that the will of a human acts on account of an end
Disp. 3, sects. 1 - Whether it is necessary to set up some ultimate end for humans and their actions
Disp. 3, sects. 2 - Whether one can intend in his actions two particular ultimate ends as such
Disp. 3, sects. 3 - Whether someone can at the same time intend two ultimate ends, strictly speaking and positively, and act on account of these
Disp. 3, sects. 4-6 - Whether someone can at the same time intend two ultimate ends, one strictly speaking and the other in a qualified sense; Whether it is necessary that a human always act on account of an ultimate end strictly speaking having been intended by itself; Whether all human actions are on account of an ultimate end strictly speaking at least by inclination
Disp. 4, sect. 1 - Concerning happiness in general: whether it is and what it is
Disp. 4, sect. 2 - Whether it can be shown that human happiness is possible or is going to be
Disp. 4, sect. 3 - What kinds of happiness there are
Disp. 5, sect. 1 - Whether all created things without God could be a sufficient object of human happiness
Disp. 5, sect. 2 - Whether God alone without the association of any creatures is a sufficient object of happiness
Disp. 6, sect. 3 - Whether happiness is one simple activity of the intellective soul or a collection of multiple activities
Disp. 7, sect. 1 - Whether formal happiness is essentially an act of the intellect or of the will
Disp. 7, sect. 2 - In what act the essential imperfect happiness that can be had in this life consists
Disp. 15, sect. 1-2 - In what this natural happiness properly consists; In what way a human being can acquire natural happiness
Disp. 16, sect. 1 - Whether a human being desires with an innate desire natural happiness in particular and in general

De voluntario et involuntario

Disp. 6, sect. 1 - Concerning the objects, natures, and differences of will and intention
Disp. 8 - What election is, what its object is, and of what power it is an act; Whether consent is an act of the will distinct from election; How election and consent are distinguished from the intention for an end and, at the same time, how they turn concerning the end; Whether an act of choice is free; Concerning the cognition necessary for election.
Disp. 8, sect. 4 - Whether an act of choice is free
Disp. 9 - What use is and what its object is; Whether use is an act distinct from election; What act of the intellect precedes use and, at the same time, what command is and how it is distinguished from use

De bonitate et malitia humanorum actuum

Disp. 6, sect. 1 - Whether a good end is necessary in order for an act of the will to be good
Disp. 6, sect. 2 - What the goodness is which an act of pure election has as a result of an honest end
Disp. 6, sect. 3 - Whether an act that is good as a result of its object can have some goodness as a result of an extrinsic end
Disp. 6, sect. 4 - What the accidental goodness resulting from the end in an interior act of the will is
Disp. 6, sect. 5 - What kind of relation to the end is required for this goodness
Disp. 11, sect. 2 - Whether the human will, in order to be right, must be conformed to the divine will that orders the actions of the human will itself

De legibus

Lib. 1, cap. 13 - Whether the effect intended by law is to make subordinates good

Quaestiones de legibus (1582)

Disp. 3, q. 3 - Whether natural law is only one

Disputationes Metaphysicae

II.1.1 - Formal and objective concepts
II.4 - In what the nature of being insofar as [it is] being consists and how it agrees with lower beings
III.2 - How many attributes of being there are and what order they preserve between themselves
VIII.2 - What truth of cognition is
VIII.7 - Whether truth is something in things which is an attribute of beings
X.1.1-5 - What good or goodness is
XII.3 - How many kinds of causes there are
XXIII.1 - On the final cause in general
XXIII.2 - What kinds of ends there are
XXIII.3 - What effects the final cause has
XXIII.4 - What the nature of causing or the causality of the final cause is or consists in
XXIII.5 - What the proximate nature of causing in the final end is
XXIII.6 - What things can exercise final causality
XXIII.7 - Whether it is a necessary condition for the end to be cognized so that it can cause finally
XXIII.8 - Whether the end moves according to its own real being or according to being cognized
XXIII.9 - Whether causality of the end has a place in divine actions and effects
XXIII.10 - Whether true final causality intercedes in the actions of natural and irrational agents
XXIV - Concerning the ultimate final cause or the ultimate end (Whether it can be sufficiently shown by natural reason that some ultimate end is given and that a procession into infinity is not given in final causes; Whether an ultimate end per se and properly concurs with all proximate ends for causing finally and consequently whether all agents intend an ultimate end in all their actions). (html)
XXXIX - Concerning the division of accidents into the nine highest genera (Whether accident in general is immediately divided into quantity, quality, and the other highest genera of accidents; Whether the division of accidents into nine genera is sufficient; Whether the stated division is univocal or analogical).