Folia Theologica 16. (2005)
Pál Bolberitz: The Beginnings of Hungarian Philosphy (The Reception of Nicholas of Cusa in the work of "De homine" by Peter Monedulatus Csokas Laskoi)
18 P. BOLBERITZ Chapters of Book One: 1. The variousness of the universe, or else the division of the entire world. 2. Every knowledge is acquired from three ways of admiring the world, particularly the knowledge of nature. 3. Among the three worlds after the spiritual (intelligible) world the most exquisite is the microsmos. 4. Why used man to be called microcosmos by ancient Greeks, a universal creature by Jesus Christ, and the great miracle of the world by the ancient wisemen? 5. About the microcosmos, or the small world, that is the parts, composing the essence of man. 6. About the stucture of human soul, primarily about the diversity of its numerous capacities. 7. Is there soul in human being (anima rationalis)? 8. About the essence of soul; Is it merely an emptiness or a transient quality, or a kind of natural body? 9. If soul is not merely a quality, and it is not yet body, but a spiritual essence, whether is it derived from the essence of God? 10. If soul is not involved in the Divine essence, then had it been created before the world and had been preserved in the celestial pharmacy of the divine riches? 11. If soul not, yet preliminary created, is not stored in the heaven, is it descended like bodies, by sexual semens, as it is supposed by a few thinkers? 12. If soul (in opposite to others' opinion) is transmitted not like body, that is by sexual semens, then does God creat it in the body of newly born childs day by day? 13. If God (as others say) puts soul day by day, where is the residence of soul situated in human body? 14. Does body does soul perish in the dismission, too, or is it eternal and immortal? 15. If soul does not perish in the dismission of body, whether does it wander from body to body?
