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Some of these texts, however, are relatively difficult to procure, so I thought there might be some point in making them available. All of them contain the Latin text (some of them contain only the Latin text and some mostly). Even where one has access to the books in question, it is sometimes useful to have texts that can be electronically searched. So with appropriate heed to my warnings, these texts might be useful to one or two individuals with arcane interests.
Incidentally, I expect to add more texts, so it may be worth checking back.
Francisco Suarez
De fine hominis
Introduction
Disp. 1, sect. 1 - In what the causality of an end consists with respect to human will
Disp. 1, sect. 2 - Whether the causality of an end in our will is only with respect to means or also with respect to the end itself
Disp. 1, sect. 3 - Whether an end exercises causality under the aspect of cognized good
Disp. 1, sect. 4 - Under what aspect of good an end moves and, consequently, whether means participate in the causality of an end
Disp. 1, sect. 5 - How the end is related to the adequate object of the will
Disp. 1, sect. 6 - What kinds of ends there are
Disp. 2, sect. 1 - Concerning actions of the will which are on account of an end
Disp. 2, sect. 2 - Whether acts of the will are necessarily for the sake of an end and consequently whether they are properly human acts
Disp. 2, sect. 3 - Whether a human being acts for the sake of an end in actions which do not proceed from the will
Disp. 2, sect. 4 - In how many modes it happens that the will of a human acts on account of an end
Disp. 3, sects. 1-3 - Whether it is necessary to set up some ultimate end for humans and its actions; Whether one can intend in his actions two particular ultimate ends as such; Whether someone can at the same time intend two ultimate ends, strictly speaking and positively, and act on account of these
Disp. 3, sects. 4-6 - Whether someone can at the same time intend two ultimate ends, one strictly speaking and the other in a qualified sense; Whether it is necessary that a human always act on account of an ultimate end strictly speaking having been intended by itself; Whether all human actions are on account of an ultimate end strictly speaking at least by inclination
Disp. 4, sect. 1 - Concerning happiness in general: whether it is and what it is
Disp. 4, sect. 2 - Whether it can be shown that human happiness is possible or is going to be
Disp. 4, sect. 3 - What kinds of happiness there are
Disp. 15, sect. 1-2 - In what this natural happiness properly consists; In what way a human being can acquire natural happiness
Disp. 16, sect. 1 - Whether a human being desires with an innate desire natural happiness in particular and in general
De voluntario et involuntario
Disp. 6, sect. 1 - Concerning the objects, natures, and differences of will and intention
Disp. 8, sect. 4 - Whether an act of choice is free
De legibus
Lib. 1, cap. 13 - Whether the effect intended by law is to make subordinates good
Quaestiones de legibus (1582)
Disp. 3, q. 3 - Whether natural law is only one
Disputationes Metaphysicae
I.1.1 - Formal and objective concepts
II.4 - In what the nature of being insofar as [it is] being consists and how it agrees with lower beings
III.2 - How many attributes of being there are and what order they preserve between themselves
VIII.2 - What truth of cognition is
VIII.7 - Whether truth is something in things which is an attribute of beings
X.1.1-5 - What good or goodness is
XXIII.1 - On the final cause in general
XXIII.2 - What kinds of ends there are
XXIII.3 - What effects the final cause has
XXIII.4 - What the nature of causing or the causality of the final cause is or consists in
XXIII.5 - What the proximate nature of causing in the final end is
XXIII.6 - What things can exercise final causality
XXIII.7 - Whether it is a necessary condition for the end to be cognized so that it can cause finally
XXIII.8 - Whether the end moves according to its own real being or according to being cognized
XXIII.9 - Whether causality of the end has a place in divine actions and effects
XXIII.10 - Whether true final causality intercedes in the actions of natural and irrational agents
XXIV.1 - Whether it can be sufficiently shown by natural reason that some ultimate end is given and that a procession into infinity is not given in final causes
XXIV.2 - Whether an ultimate end per se and properly concurs with all proximate ends for causing finally and consequently whether all agents intend an ultimate end in all their actions
Cajetan
Commentary on Aquinas's Summa Theologiae
IaIIae.1.5
IaIIae.1.6
IIaIIae.24.10
Melchor Cano
De locis theologis
XII, cap. 2 - What theology is
Duns Scotus
Ordinatio
IV, dist. 49, q. 9 - Whether every human wants happiness above all and of necessity
Durandus
Sentences
II, dist. 34, q. 1 - Whether the nature of good is absolute or respective
Pierre Gassendi
Exercitationes paradoxicae adversus Aristoteleos
Lib. II, ex. 3, art. 12 - Relations are like extrinsic denominations
Christoph Scheibler (aka, the "Protestant Suarez")
Metaphysica
II, cap. 9, t. 1 - Concerning the word `relation' and its named distinctions
Domingo de Soto
De Iure et Iustitia
I, q. 4, art. 5 - Whether the law of nature can be changed or abolished