The Philosophy of Francisco Suárez
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- Book
- Year:
- 2012
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Place published:
- Oxford, UK
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- Abstract:
During the seventeenth century the Iberian Jesuit 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. He contributed across all fields of philosophy, from the natural law, ethics and political theory, to natural philosophy, the philosophy of mind, and philosophical psychology, and most importantly to metaphysics, ontology, and natural theology. Echoes of his thinking reverberate through Descartes, Locke, Leibniz, and beyond. Yet curiously Suárez has not been well‐studied 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, and that small sections of Suárez’s magnum opus, the Metaphysical Disputations, have begun to be translated into English, French, and Italian. The historical task of interpreting Suárez’s thought is still in its infancy, and this volume of essays represents one of the first collections in English written by the leading figures 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 is sure to shape and frame Suárez scholarship for years to come as well as the history of seventeenth‐century generally. It is an essential text for anyone interested in Suárez, the seventeenth‐century world of ideas, and late Scholastic or early modern philosophy.
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- Number of Pages:
- 304
- ISBN:
- 978019958364501995836419780191738456019173845X