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Prologue — On higher and lower reason

1. Whether understanding and reason are different powers in man?

    1. Whether higher and lower reason are different powers?
    1. Whether sin can exist in higher or lower reason?
    1. Whether deliberate pleasure in bad thoughts (delectatio morosa), which exists in the lower part of reason through consent to the pleasure but without consent to the deed, is a mortal sin?
    1. Whether venial sin exists in higher reason?

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