The Dialectic of the Spiritual Exercisesof St. Ignatius of Loyola

Contents
Thoughts on the Dialectic of the Spiritual Exercises
Figures
Preface
Postscript to the Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1 Division of the Exercises
	1	How to Make the Four Weeks Coincide with the Three Ways?
	2	Deduction of the Divisions of the Exercises
Part 1 Before the Act of Freedom
	Chapter 2 Positing Non-being: Week One
	Chapter 3 Negation of the Positing of Non-being: Week Two
		1	The Three Degrees of Humility
Part 2 Passage from the Before to the After
	Introduction to Part 2
	Chapter 4 The Election
		1	Preamble to the Election
		2	Introduction concerning the Things about Which Election Must Be Made
		3	The Three Times of the Election
			3.1	First Time
			3.2	Second Time
			3.3	Third Time
		4	Two Ways of Making Election in the Third Time (Numbers 178–188)
			4.1	First Way (Numbers 178–183)
			4.2	Second Way (Numbers 184–188)
		5	For the Amendment and Reform of One’s Own Life and Condition (Number 189)
Part 3 After the Act of Freedom
	Introduction to Part 3
	Chapter 5 Exclusion of All Non-being: Third Week
		1	The Growth of the Exclusion of Non-being
		2	Passage from the Third to the Fourth Moment: Triduum Mortis
		3	Application to the Act of Freedom
	Chapter 6 Positing of Being: Fourth Week
		1	Application to the Act of Freedom
		2	Growth of the Positing of the Being
		3	The Disappearance of the Positing of Being: Ascension
	Conclusion The Contemplatio Ad Amorem Obtinendum
		1	First Point
		2	Second Point
		3	Third Point
		4	Fourth Point
		5	Suscipe
	Circularity of the Exercises and Circularity of Absolute Knowledge: From Ignatius to Hegel through Hölderlin
Afterword
	1	Essay on Constructing a Geometrical Scheme of the Exercises
		1.1	Fundamental Images
			1.2	Design of the Four Weeks
			1.3	Design of the Contemplation ad Amorem
			1.4	Ignatian Mysticism and Intellectualist Mysticisms
		2	Division of the Exercises
		3	Perspectives
Appendix Rules for the Discernment of Spirits
	1	Rules for the First Week (Numbers 313–327)
		1.1	Rules 1 and 2: The Double Existential Situation of the Self (Numbers 314 and 315)
			1.2	Rules 2 and 3: Definition of Consolation and Desolation (Numbers 315 and 316)
			1.3	Rules 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9: Tactic to Follow in Desolation
			1.4	Rules 10 and 11: Tactic to Follow in Consolation
			1.5	Rules 12, 13, and 14: The Devil’s Tactic (Numbers 325, 326, and 327)
		2	Rules for the Second Week (Numbers 328–336)
			2.1	Rule 1: Specifications about Consolation (Number 329)
			2.2	Rule 2: Consolation without Prior Cause (Number 330)
			2.3	Rule 3: Consolation Caused by Spirits (Number 331)
			2.4	Rule 4: False Consolation (Number 332)
			2.5	Rule 5: Discernment of False Consolation (Number 333)
			2.6	Rule 6: After the Discernment of False Consolation (Number 334)
			2.7	Rule 7: Contrary Modes of Action of the Spirits (Number 335)
			2.8	Rule 8: The Time That Follows Consolation without Cause (Number 336)
Further Study of the Ignatian Maxim
	Haec sit prima agendorum regula: sic Deo fide, quasi rerum successus omnis a te, nihil a Deo penderet; ita tamen iis omnem operam admove, quasi tu nihil, Deus omnia solus sit facturus
		Section 1: Sources of the Traditional Maxim
		Section 2: Structure of Maxim Number 2
			2.1	Point of Departure of the Objections
			2.2	Incoherent Propositions or Dialectical Propositions?
			2.3	Formula B and the Kieckens Translation
			2.4	Dialectical Structure and the Role of Quasi
			2.5	Critique of Formula B: Role of Sic and Ita
			2.6	Placement of the Imperative and Order of the Subordinate Clause
			2.7	Formula C and the Meaning of Subordinate Clauses
			2.8	Formula A and the Proof by Negativity
			2.9	Conclusion: The Traditional Maxim and the Exercises
		Section 3: The Objections against the Traditional Maxim
			Section 4: The Secret of These Objections
Figures
	Figures 1–10
	Figures 14–19
	Figures 20–29
	Elogium Sepulcrale
Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Terms