Book contents
- Suárez’s Metaphysical Disputations
- CAMBRIDGE CRITICAL GUIDES
- Suárez’s Metaphysical Disputations
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I The Character of Suárez’s Metaphysical Disputations
- Part II Being, Its Properties, and Ancillary Notions
- Part III Causation
- Part IV Corporeal Substance
- Part V Categories
- Bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE CRITICAL GUIDES
Introduction
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Book contents
- Suárez’s Metaphysical Disputations
- CAMBRIDGE CRITICAL GUIDES
- Suárez’s Metaphysical Disputations
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I The Character of Suárez’s Metaphysical Disputations
- Part II Being, Its Properties, and Ancillary Notions
- Part III Causation
- Part IV Corporeal Substance
- Part V Categories
- Bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE CRITICAL GUIDES
Summary
Francisco Suárez, S.J. (1548–1617) was one of the most important philosophers and theologians of early modern Aristotelian scholasticism. His fame in the seventeenth century and beyond rests to a great degree on his Disputationes Metaphysicae, or Metaphysical Disputations (DM), first published in Salamanca in 1597. The work is explicitly described by its author as having been composed out of a desire to provide the grounding in metaphysics that is necessary for the proper study of supernatural theology, and it constitutes an extraordinarily comprehensive statement of a broadly Aristotelian metaphysics. It is sometimes said to be the first systematic work of scholastic first philosophy not to take the form of a commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics. This is not quite right, however: for one thing, the Dominican Diego Mas (1553–1608) published his Metaphysical Disputation on Being and Its Properties in 1587. Moreover, it seems that in the 1570s many Jesuits wrote metaphysical treatises that did not follow the traditional order of exposition. Nevertheless, if we confine ourselves to published works, Suárez’s Metaphysical Disputations is unprecedented in size and scope.
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- Suárez's Metaphysical DisputationsA Critical Guide, pp. 1 - 12Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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