The philosophy of Francisco Suárez
By: edited by Benjamin Hill and Henrik Lagerlund
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780199583645
Description: "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 through the philosophy of Descartes, Locke, Leibniz, and beyond. Yet curiously Suárez 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 have small sections of Suárez's magnum opus, the Metaphysical Disputations, been translated into English, French, and Italian. The historical task of interpreting Suárez's thought is still in its infancy. The Philosophy of Francisco Suárez 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 Suárez's philosophical contributions, and contains cutting-edge research which will shape and frame scholarship on Suárez for years to come--as well as the history of seventeenth-century generally. This is an essential text for anyone interested in Suárez, the seventeenth-century world of ideas, and late Scholastic or early modern philosophy."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [230]-290) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Benjamin Hill; title: Background and Influence. Suárez in a late scholastic context: anatomy, psychology and authority / Michael Edwards; title: Descartes and Leibniz as readers of Suárez: theory of distinctions and principle of individuation / Roger Ariew; title: Metaphysics. Shadows of being: Francisco Suarez's 'Entia Rationis' / Christopher Shields; title: Suárez on continuous quantity / Jorge Secada; title: Natural philosophy. Suśrez on propinquity and the efficient cause / Dennis Des Chene; title: Suárez's last stand for the substantial form / Helen Hattab; title: Mind and psychology. Suárez, immortality, and the soul's dependence on the body / James B. South; title: Suárez on self-awareness / Cees Leijenhorst; title: Unity in the multiplicity of Suárez's soul / Marleen Rozemond; title: Ethics and natural law; title: Reason and obligation in Suárez / Thomas Pink; title: Suárez and natural law / James Gordley.