Excerpt. Klubertanz "Discursive Power" Thomas Aquinas textual sources on vis cogitativa

The following is an excerpt from an important textual study on Thomas Aquinas's doctrine on the vis cogitativa. This doctrine is currently my primary area of study. The following excerpt provides a very long listing of important textual sources for this doctrine. I am making it available online, becuase this book is nearly impossible to find and so I can have access to this index at any internet connection. Unfortunately I do not know how to keep formatting when I import from a word document, so this doesn't look as nice as it should.

The Discursive Power: sources and doctrine of the vis cogitativa according to St. Thomas Aquinas

By George P. Klubertanz
Part II.
Chapter 5
Introduction to Thomistic Texts

In St. Thomas, the “key” texts are very brief, but there is a very large number of
shorter references to the same problem. Almost all the modern authors who have touched on this problem in St. Thomas agree that the main texts are five: Commentary on the Sentences, bk. 3, d. 26, q. 1, a.2; Contra Gentiles, bk. 2, 60, 73,76; Commentary on the De Anima, bk. 2, lect. 13; Summa Theologiae I. 78. 4, 81. 3; Quaestio Disputata de Anima, a. 13. These five texts are very brief; almost astonishingly so in comparison with the discussions of St. Albert. The one
extended discussion, that in the Contra Gentiles, really contains very little positive doctrine, as we shall see; it is almost entirely concerned with the refutation of a particular Averroes’s theory.
[See footnotes for the following references]

Additional direct references to the vis cogitative occur in the Commentary on the Sentences,1 De Veritate,2 Contra Gentiles,3 Commentary on the Ethics,4 Summa Theologiae,5 Quaestio Disputata de Anima,6 and in the doubtful work De Principio Individuationis7.

Ratio particularis is spoken of in Commentary on the Sentences,8 De Veritate,9 Contra Gentiles,10 Commentary on the Ethics,11 Commentary on the De Anima,12 De Principio Individuationis, and Summa Theologiae.13

Vis aestimativa is discussed in Commentary on the Sentences,14 De Veritate,15 Contra Gentiles,16 Commentary on the Ethics,17 Commentary on De Sensu et Sensato,18 and Commentary on De Memoria et Reminiscentia,19 and in Summa Theologiae.20

Instinctus is mentioned with reference to the actions of animals in Commentary on the Sentences,21 Contra Gentiles,22 Commentary on the Metaphysics,23 Commentary on De Memoria et Reminiscentia,24 Summa Theologiae,25 and Quaestio Disputata de Anima.26

It is obvious that some of these references will overlap, since these terms naturally combine and contract among themselves. It should also be stated that this list does not pretend to be exhaustive, except in the sense that all the important passages are considered.

Another point to be noted is that some very important texts do not explicitly refer to any of these terms. For example, the long and very important discussion on prudence in Summa Theologiae II-II, qq. 47 and 49, is shown to concern our problem only by means of St. Thomas’s own reference to the sixth book of Aristotle’s Ethics, and by means of St. Thomas’s own development of the Aristotelian doctrine.

The chapter divisions on this part follow almost naturally from the chronology of the works. A glance at the “key” texts shows a division into three groups: the first comprising of Commentary on the Sentences, the De Veritate, and the Contra Gentiles, which precede most if not all of the commentaries on Aristotle; the second group will take in the passages occurring in commentaries on Aristotelian works; the third including the Summa Theologiae and the Quaestio Disputata de Anima. More accurate dating, for example, of the relative position of the Aristotelian Commentaries with relation to each other, is not always certain, and, as we shall see, has almost nothing to offer us.[...]

Standard translations of the works of St. Thomas, where they exist, will not be made use of. One reason is that a textual study requires a certain literalness of translation that would otherwise be out of place. Another reason is to ensure the same translation for the same terms. A third is to show, by textual analysis, that the term “vis cogitativa” is capable of translation and not merely transliteration.


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1
Loci in the Commentary on the Sentences: III d. 23, q. 2, a. 2, q. 1 ad 3; IV d. 7 q. 3, a. 3, q. 2, obj. 1 and ad 1; III d. 26, q. 1, a. 2; IV d. 23, q. 2, a. 2, q. 1 ad 3; d. 49, q. 22, a. 2, sol.; d. 50, q. 1, a.1 ad 3; a. 3 ad 3 in contrar.
2
De Veritate: I. 11, X. 5, XV. 1 ad 9, XV. 1, XVIII. 7 ad 5.
3
Contra Gentiles: II. 60, 73, 76, 80, 81; III. 84.
4
Commentary on the Ethics: VI, lect. 1, 7, 9.
5
Summa Theologiae, I. 85.7, 111.2 ad 2, 115.3, 79.2; I-II. 50.3 ad 3, 51.3, 30.3 ad 3, 74.3 ad 1; II-II. 2.1 ad 2; III. 72 11, arg. 3 and ad 3.
6
Quaestio Disputata de Anima: XX ad 1 in contrar.
7
De Principio Individuationis: a medio.
8
Commentary on the Sentences: II d. 24, q. 2, a. 1 ad 3; IV d. 50, q. 1, a. 1 ad 3; a. 3 ad 3 in contrar.
9
De Veritate: II. 6, X. 5, XIV. 1 ad 9, XV. 1.
10
Contra Gentiles: II. 60.
11
Commentary on the Ethics: VI, lect. 1, 7, 9.
12
Commentary on the De Anima: II, lect. 16.
13
Summa Theologiae: I. 20, 1 ad 1, 19. 2 ad 2; 80. 2 ad 3; I-II. 51. 3, 30. 3 ad 3.
14
Commentary on the Sentences: II. d. 20, q. 2, a. 2 ad 5; II d. 24, q. 2, a. 1 and ad 2; d. 25, q. 1, a. 1 ad 7; III d. 17, q. 1, a. 1, q. 3 ad 2; d. 15, q. 2, a. 2, q. 3 ad 3; d. 35, q. 1, a 2, q. 2 ad 1; IV d. 49, q. 2, a. 2.
15
De Veritate: I. 11, XV. 1, XVIII. 7 and ad 7; XXIV. 2; XXV. 2.
16
Contra Gentiles: II. 47, 48, 60.
17
Commentary on the Ethics: VI, lect. 7, 9.
18
Commentary on De Sensu et Sensato: lect. 1.
19
Commentary on De Memoria et Reminiscentia: lect. 2.
20
Summa Theologiae: I. 81.2 ad 2; I-II. 6.2, 77.1
21
Commentary on the Sentences: II d. 20, q. 2, a. 2 ad 5.
22
Contra Gentiles: II. 47; III. 131.
23
Commentary on Metaphysics: I. Lect. 1.
24
Commentary on De Memoria et Reminiscentia: lect. 1, 8.
25
Summa Theologiae: I. 18. 3, 83.1; I-II. 3. 6, 9. 1 ad 2, 11. 2, 12. 5 and ad 3, 15. 2, 17. 2 ad 3, 40. 3 and ad 1, 46. 4 ad 2, 50. 3 and ad 2. 26
Quaestio Disputata de Anima: XIII.