The philosophy of Francisco Suárez / edited by Benjamin Hill and Henrik Lagerlund.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hill, Benjamin.

Lagerlund, Henrik.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Suárez, Francisco, 1548-1617.

Suárez, Francisco.

Genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Physical Description:

vi, 294 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Summary:

During the seventeenth century Francisco Suárez was considered one of the greatest philosophers of the age. He was the last great Scholastic thinker and profoundly influenced the thought of his contemporaries within both Catholic and protestant circles. Suárez contributed to all fields of philosophy, from natural law, ethics, and political theory to natural philosophy, the philosophy of mind, and philosophical psychology, and most importantly to metaphysics, and natural theology. Echoes of his thinking reverberate Suarez has not been studied in detail by historians of philosophy. It is only recently that he has emerged as a significant subject of critical and historical investigation for historians of late medieval and early modern philosophy. Only in recent years small sections of Suarez magnum opus, the Metaphysical Disputations, been translated into English, French, and Italian. The historical task of interpreting Suarez's thought is still in its infancy. The philosophy of Francisco Suarez is one of the first collections in English written by the leading scholars who are largely responsible for this new trend in the history of philosophy. It covers all areas of Suarez's philosophical contributions, and contains cutting-edge research which will shape and frame scholarship on Suarez for years to come-as well as the history of seventeenth-century generally. This is essential text for anyone interested in Suárez, the seventeenth-century world of ideas, and late Scholastic modern philosophy. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Background and Influence

1 Suárez in a Late Scholastic Context: Anatomy, Psychology, and Authority / Michael Edwards Edwards, Michael 25

2 Descartes and Leibniz as Readers of Suárez: Theory of Distinctions and Principle of Individuation / Roger Ariew Ariew, Roger 38

Part II Metaphysics

3 Shadows of Beings: Francisco Suárez's Entia Rationis / Christopher Shields Shields, Christopher 57

4 Suárez on Continuous Quantity / Jorge Secada Secada, Jorge 75

Part III Natural Philosophy

5 Suárez on Propinquity and the Efficient Cause / Dennis Des Chene Chene, Dennis Des 89

6 Suárez's Last Stand for the Substantial Form / Helen Hattab Hattab, Helen 101

Part IV Mind and Psychology

7 Suárez, Immortality, and the Soul's Dependence on the Body / James B South South, James B 121

8 Suárez on Self-Awareness / Cees Leijenhorst Leijenhorst, Cees 137

9 Unity in the Multiplicity of Suárez's Soul / Marleen Rozemond Rozemond, Marleen 154

Part V Ethics and Natural Law

10 Reason and Obligation in Suarez / Tliomas Pink Pink, Tliomas 175

11 Suárez and Natural Law / James Gordley Gordley, James 209.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [230]-290) and index.

ISBN:

9780199583645

0199583641

OCLC:

753300213