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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hill, Benjamin, editor.

Lagerlund, Henrik, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Suárez, Francisco, 1548-1617.

Suárez, Francisco.

Philosophy, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 294 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

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, andnatural theology. Echoes of his thinking reverberate through the philosophy of Descartes, Locke, Leibniz, and beyond. Yet curiously

Contents:

Introduction / Benjamin Hill

Background and Influence. Suárez in a late scholastic context: anatomy, psychology and authority / Michael Edwards

Descartes and Leibniz as readers of Suárez: theory of distinctions and principle of individuation / Roger Ariew

Metaphysics. Shadows of being: Francisco Suarez's 'Entia Rationis' / Christopher Shields

Suárez on continuous quantity / Jorge Secada

Natural philosophy. Suśrez on propinquity and the efficient cause / Dennis Des Chene

Suárez's last stand for the substantial form / Helen Hattab

Mind and psychology. Suárez, immortality, and the soul's dependence on the body / James B. South

Suárez on self-awareness / Cees Leijenhorst

Unity in the multiplicity of Suárez's soul / Marleen Rozemond

Ethics and natural law

Reason and obligation in Suárez / Thomas Pink

Suárez and natural law / James Gordley.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Mar. 5, 2012).

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ISBN:

1-283-42687-0

9786613426871

0-19-162919-7

OCLC:

772845029