- Does the goodness of the will depend on the object?
- Does it depend on the object alone?
- Does it depend on reason?
- Does it depend on the eternal law?
- Does erring reason bind?
- Is the will evil if it follows the erring reason against the law of God?
- Does the goodness of the will in regard to the means, depend on the intention of the end?
- Does the degree of goodness or badness in the will depend on the degree of good or evil in the intention?
- Does the goodness of the will depend on its conformity to the Divine will?
- Is it necessary for the human will, in order to be good, to be conformed to the Divine will, as regards the thing willed?
"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.