A commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics : or, a most ample index to the metaphysics of Aristotle / Francisco Suarez ; translated with an introduction and notes by John P. Doyle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Suárez, Francisco, 1548-1617.

Contributor:

Doyle, John P., 1930-

Series:

Mediaeval philosophical texts in translation ; no. 40.

Mediaeval philosophical texts in translation ; no. 40

Standardized Title:

Index locupletissimus in Metaphysicam Aristotelis. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaphysics.

Aristotle. Metaphysics.

Aristotle.

Physical Description:

430 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Milwaukee, Wis. : Marquette University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Intro

© 2004 Marquette University Press

Table of Contents

To Mary Gale

Introduction

Suárez on Metaphysics The Plan and the Progression of the Whole Work To the Reader

The Preface to the Second Disputation

Francisco Suárez, S.J. A Most Ample Index to the Metaphysics of Aristotle

The First Introductory Chapter

Chapter Two of the Introduction

Chapter Three About Various Opinions of the Ancient Philosophers Regarding the Principles of Things

Chapter Four About the Same Opinions

Chapters Five and Six About the Same Thing

Chapter Seven The Opinions of the Ancients Are Opposed

The Second Book of the Metaphysics

Chapter One It Is Difficult to Find the Truth ThatThis Science Seeks

Chapter Two There Is No Process to Infinity in Species or Number of Causes

Chapter Three About the Manner and Order to Be Observed in Seeking Truth

The Third Book of the Metaphysics1 Summarily Containing All Difficulties That Occur in This Science

Chapter One

Chapter Two Reasons for Doubting in the First Five Questions

Chapter Three A Question Is Raised about Principles: Whether They Are Themselves Genera, or Elements, or Physical Principles?

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

The Fourth Book of the Metaphysics

About the Subject of This Doctrine, As Well As Its Parts, Properties, and Principles

Chapter Two About the Analogy of Being and about Some of Its Properties

Chapter Three First Principles Pertain to This Science and Especially That Which Is the First of All

Chapters Four To Eight These First Principles Are Defended: "It Is Impossible That the Same Thing Both Be and Not Be at the Same Time" and "Everything Necessarily either Is or Is Not"

The Fifth Book of the Metaphysics1 On the Signification and Distinction of Common and Analogous Terms.

Chapter One About the Common Meaning and True Signification of the word "Principle"

Chapter Two About Causes

Chapter Three About an Element

Chapter Four About Nature

Chapter Five About Necessity and Its Modes

Chapter Six About Unity and Its Various Modes

Chapter Seven About Being and the Various Ways in Which It Is or Is Signified

Chapter Eight About Substance

Chapter Nine About Same, Diverse, and Similar

Chapter Ten About Opposites and Things Specifically Different

Chapter Eleven About the Modes of Prior and Posterior

Chapter Twelve About Potency

Chapter Thirteen About a Quantum or about Quantity

Chapter Fourteen About "Quale" [Such] and Quality [Suchness]

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen About the Perfect

Chapter Seventeen About a Term

Chapter Eighteen About "According to Which, According to Itself, and through Itself "

Chapter Nineteen About Disposition

Chapter Twenty About Habit

Chapter Twenty-One About Passion

Chapter Twenty-Two About Privation

Chapter Twenty-Three About Having and Being in Something

Chapter Twenty-Four In How Many Ways Is 'Being from Something' Said?

Chapter Twenty-Five About Part

Chapter Twenty-Six About Whole

Chapter Twenty-Seven About the Truncated

Chapter Twenty-Eight About Genus

Chapter Twenty-Nine About the False

Chapter Thirty About Accident

The Sixth Book of the Metaphysics About Being Insofar As It Falls Under the Consideration of This Science, Or Insofar As It Must Be Excluded from It

Chapter One That This Science Is about Being As Being, and Therefore It Is the First of the Speculative Sciences and It Is Diverse from the Others

Chapter Two Being by Accident and Being As True Are Excluded from the Consideration of This Science.

The Seventh Book of the Metaphysics About the Principal Significate [of the Word 'Being'] Which Is Substance

Chapter One That Substance Is Being in the First Sense and the First Object of This Science

Chapters Two And Three What Is Substance and How Many Are There?

Chapter Four About the Definition or the Quiddity of a Thing

Chapter Five Questions concerning the Definitions of Accidents Are Answered

Chapter Six Whether 'What Something Is' Is the Same As 'That of Which It Is'?

Chapter Seven How and by What the Forms of Things Are Made

Chapter Eight About the Same Thing and That It Is Not the Form But the Composite Which Is Directly Made

Chapter Nine Some Questions and Answers about the Same Thing

Chapter Ten About Quiddity in Relation to Definition

Chapter Eleven What Are Formal Parts and What Are Material Parts

Chapter Twelve An Essential Unit (Per Se Unum) Is Produced from the Parts of a Definition,That Is, from a Genus and a Difference

Chapter Thirteen About Second Substance or the Universal

Chapter Fourteen Universals Are Not Substances Separate From Individuals

Chapter Fifteen About the Same Thing

Chapter Sixteen How Can Substances Be Composed of Several Parts?

Chapter Seventeen "What Something Is" Is the Principle and the Cause of Those Things Which Belong to It

The Eighth Book of the Metaphysics About Sensible Substance And Its Principles

Chapter One That Sensible Substance Exists with Matter and What That Is

Chapter Two About Substantial Form

Chapter Three About the Formal Principle by Comparison with the Positions Of Plato And Pythagoras

Chapter Four About the Material Principle of Substances

Chapter Five How the Material Principle Functions for Mutations

Chapter Six Why an Essential Unit Is Produced from a Genus and a Difference, or from Matter and Form.

The Ninth Book of the Metaphysics About the Division of Being into Act and Potency

Chapter One About Various Meanings of the Word "Potency"

Chapter Two About Rational and Non-Rational Potencies

Chapter Three That Potency Is Separable from Act

Chapter Four Not Everything That Is Unproduced Is Capable of Being Produced

Chapter Five About the Order between Potency and Act

Chapter Six What Act Is

Chapter Seven When a Thing Is Properly Said To Be in Potency

Chapter Eight [When] Act Is Prior to Potency

Chapter Nine [When] Act Is Prior to Potency in Substance and Perfection

Chapter Ten That in Good Things Act Is Better than Form but Not So in Bad Things

Chapter Eleven That in Cognition Act Is Prior to Potency

Chapter Twelve About Truth and Falsity: How They Exist In the Knowledge of Simple Things

The Tenth Book of the Metaphysics About Unity and Multitude As Well As Their Opposition and Differences

Chapter One About the Nature of the One in General

Chapter Two That the Character of Measure Belongs Directly and Immediately to Quantitative Unity

Chapter Three The Philosopher Continues the Same Subject

Chapter Four The One Is Not a Substance Separate from Individual Things

Chapter Five About the Opposition between One and Many

Chapter Six About Contrariety

Chapter Seven About the Difference between Contrariety And Other Oppositions

Chapter Eight How One Is Contrary to One

Chapter Nine How One Is Opposed to Multitude and to Number

Chapter Ten A Medium between Contraries Is of the Same Genus and Exists from Them

Chapter Eleven That Contraries Are Diverse in Species and a Specific Diversity Includes a Contrariety of Differences

Chapter Twelve That There Is Some Contrariety without Specific Diversity.

Chapter Thirteen That Sometimes There Is Contrariety between Things Which Differ in Genus

The Eleventh Book of the Metaphysics

The Twelfth Book of the Metaphysics

Chapters One, Two, Three, Four, and Five

Chapter Six Besides Natural SubstancesThere Is Some Perpetual and Immobile Substance

Chapter Seven About the Attributes of the Prime Mover

Chapter Eight About the Number of Separate Substances

Chapter Nine Containing Certain Doubts about The Divine Intelligence

Chapter Ten There Is One Prince and Governor of the Universe

An Index of the Disputations and Sections Which Are Contained in This Work

In the First Tome

Ratio Et Discursus Totius Operis Ad Lectorem

Disputatio II

Index Locupletissimus in Metaphysicam Aristotelis Liber Primus Metaphysicae

Liber Secundus Metaphysicae

Liber Tertius Metaphysicae

Liber Quartus Metaphysicae

Liber Quintus Metaphysicae

Liber Sextus Metaphysicae

Liber Septimus Metaphysicae

Liber Octavus Metaphysicae

Liber Nonus Metaphysicae

Liber Decimus Metaphysicae

Liber Undecimus Metaphysicae

Liber Duodecimus Metaphysicae

Index Disputationum Et Sectionum Quae In Hoc Opere Continentur

In Priori Tomo

Persons Mentioned In The Index Locupletissimus

Bibliography

Index of Names

Mediæval Philosophical Texts in Translation Complete List.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-87462-367-7

1-4175-9429-2

OCLC:

923650989