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Prologue — Prologue

1. Whether the human soul can be a form and a particular thing?

    1. Whether the human soul, so far as its act of existing is concerned, is separated from the body?
    1. Whether there is one potential intellect, or intellective soul, for all men?
    1. Whether it is necessary to admit that an agent intellect exists?
    1. Whether there is one separately existing agent intellect for all men?
    1. Whether the soul is composed of matter and form?
    1. Whether the angel and the soul are of different species?
    1. Whether the rational soul should be united to a body such as man possesses?
    1. Whether the soul is united to bodily matter through a medium?
    1. Whether the soul exists in the whole body and in each of its parts?
    1. Whether the rational, sensitive, and vegetative souls in man are substantially one and the same?
    1. Whether the soul is its powers?
    1. Whether the powers of the soul are distinguished from one another by their objects?
    1. Whether the human soul is incorruptible?
    1. Whether the soul, when separated from the body, is capable of understanding?
    1. Whether the soul, when united to the body, can understand separate substances?
    1. Whether the soul, when separated from the body, can understand separate substances?
    1. Whether the soul, when separated from the body, knows all natural things?
    1. Whether the sensitive powers remain in the soul when it exists apart from the body?
    1. Whether the soul, when separated from the body, knows singular things?
    1. Whether the soul, when separated from the body, can suffer punishment by corporeal fire?

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