Question 79 — The Intellectual Powers

The next question concerns the intellectual powers, under which head there are thirteen points of inquiry:

(1) Whether the intellect is a power of the soul, or its essence?

• (2) If it be a power, whether it is a passive power?
• (3) If it is a passive power, whether there is an agent intellect?
• (4) Whether it is something in the soul?
• (5) Whether the agent intellect is one in all?
• (6) Whether memory is in the intellect?
• (7) Whether the memory be distinct from the intellect?
• (8) Whether the reason is a distinct power from the intellect?
• (9) Whether the superior and inferior reason are distinct powers?
• (10) Whether the intelligence is distinct from the intellect?
• (11) Whether the speculative and practical intellect are distinct powers?
• (12) Whether synderesis is a power of the intellectual part?
• (13) Whether the conscience is a power of the intellectual part?