Previously Unpublished Works, Fascicle 13 (1909) - Page 11

Folio 1, verso, column 2.

THE QUESTIONS ON THE FIRST BOOK OF PHYSICS BEGIN, AS SPOKEN BY MASTER BACON

(Since understanding and knowing in all sciences occurs, etc.)

original: "Quoniam intelligere et scire circa omnes scientias accidit etc." This is the opening line of Aristotle's Physics, which serves as the foundation for the following questions.


It is asked whether there can be a science of natural things	1
It is asked what the subject matter is in this science	1
It is asked whether it is possible to know	3
(It is asked whether it is possible to know through a cause)	4
It is asked whether there is knowing through all the causes	4
(It is asked whether one should begin with causes in this science)	5
It is asked whether one should begin from primary or secondary natures	6
It is asked concerning that proposition: the path is innate to us, from us	6
It is asked whether that first knowledge is confused through its forms	7
It is asked whether this knowledge is through its own proper forms	7
It is asked whether that knowledge occurs through the mirror of the eternal or through the intellect	8
It is asked whether this knowledge occurs through intention or through information	8
It is asked whether that confused knowledge can be generated through the forms of the agent in the possible intellect	9
It is asked what the cause of confusion is in that knowledge when the soul is united to the body	11

(It is therefore necessary that there is one principle, etc.)

original: "Necesse igitur est unum esse principium etc." This refers to the next section of Aristotle's text discussing the principles of nature.


It is asked whether the universal, which is a thing, comes before the particular	12
It is asked whether that universal, compared to its particular, is prior in terms of intention	13
(It is asked whether the universal is prior to the particular in terms of the operation of universal nature)	13
It is asked whether the universal, compared to its particular, is prior or posterior in terms of the intention of universal nature	13
It is asked concerning the comparison of the universal to its particular

CONTENTS

THE QUESTIONS ON THE FIRST BOOK OF PHYSICS BEGIN, AS SPOKEN BY MASTER BACON