- Is the intellect a power of the soul, or its essence?
- If it be a power, is it a passive power?
- If it is a passive power, is there an active intellect?
- Is it something in the soul?
- Is the active intellect one in all?
- Is memory in the intellect?
- Is the memory distinct from the intellect?
- Is the reason a distinct power from the intellect?
- Are the superior and inferior reason distinct powers?
- Is the intelligence distinct from the intellect?
- Are the speculative and practical intellect distinct powers?
- Is "synderesis" a power of the intellectual part?
- Is the conscience a power of the intellectual part?
"It is because the contemporary alternatives seem so one-sided and are not more evidently solutions to the problems which Thomas faced, and partly solved, that we return to him and to the tradition of theology and philosophy in which his Summa Theologiae appears: theology as the science of the first principle and this as the total knowledge of reality in its unity." -- Wayne J. Hankey, God in Himself (Oxford University Press, 1987), p.159.