On the formal cause of substance : metaphysical disputation XV / Francis Suarez ; translated by John Kronen & Jeremiah Reedy ; introduction & explanatory notes by John Kronen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Suárez, Francisco, 1548-1617.

Contributor:

Kronen, John, 1961-

Series:

Mediaeval philosophical texts in translation ; no. 36

Standardized Title:

De causa formali substantiali. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Substance (Philosophy).

Form (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

220 p. cm.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Milwaukee, Wis. : Marquette University Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Whether there are substantial forms in material things

In what way substantial forms can come to be in and from matter

Whether matter temporally precedes form in every eduction of the substantial form

Whether, when form is educed from matter, it comes to be as such (per se)

Concerning the proper nature of the substantial form and the nature of its causality

Concerning the nature of formal causality

What the effect of the formal cause is

Whether the substantial form is a true cause of matter and matter is its effect

Whether the dependence of matter on form is so great that without form matter could not be

Conserved even through the divine power, nor form without matter

Whether there is only one formal cause for one substance

On the metaphysical form, the matter that corresponds to it, and the causality it exercises.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-201) and indexes.

ISBN:

0-87462-976-4

0-585-39930-1

OCLC:

49851597