Philosophy of Francisco Suarez

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-958364-5
Verlag: OUP UK

Buch, Englisch, 306 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 625 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and advanced students of the history of philosophy and theology; metaphysicians.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hill, Benjamin

Lagerlund, Henrik

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Christliche Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Geschichte der Theologie, Einzelne Theologen
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Neuzeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
I: Background and Influence
1: Michael Edwards: Suarez in a Late Scholastic Context: Anatomy, Psychology and Authority
2: Roger Ariew: Descartes and Leibniz as Readers of Suárez: Theory of Distinctions and Principle of Individuation
II: Metaphysics
3: Christopher Shields: Shadows of Being: Francisco Suárez's Entia Rationis
4: Jorge Secada: Suárez on Continuous Quantity
III: Natural Philosophy
5: Dennis Des Chene: Suárez on Propinquity and the Efficient Cause
6: Helen Hattab: Suárez's Last Stand for the Substantial Form
IV: Mind and Psychology
7: James B. South: Suárez, Immortality, and the Soul's Dependence on the Body
8: Cees Leijenhorst: Suárez on Self-Awareness
9: Marleen Rozemond: Unity in the Multiplicity of Suárez's Soul
V: Ethics and Natural Law
10: Thomas Pink: Reason and Obligation in Suárez
11: James Gordley: Suárez and Natural Law
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Hill, Benjamin
Benjamin Hill received his PhD from the University of Iowa in 2003 and has taught at the University of Western Ontario since 2005. He works mainly on John Locke and seventeenth-century metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophy of mind.

Lagerlund, Henrik
Henrik Lagerlund received his PhD from Uppsala University in 1999 and is currently Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario. He has published extensively on medieval philosophy, including the monograph Modal Syllogistics in the Middle Ages (Brill, 2000). Among his edited books are Rethinking the History of Skepticism (Brill, 2010) and Representation and Objects of Thought in Medieval Philosophy (Ashgate, 2008). He is also the editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy (Springer, 2011).