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- 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
- Chapter 13 Reductive Realism
- Chapter 14 Suárez on Time
- Bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE CRITICAL GUIDES
Chapter 14 - Suárez on Time
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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
- Chapter 13 Reductive Realism
- Chapter 14 Suárez on Time
- Bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE CRITICAL GUIDES
Summary
The central component of Suárez’s account of time in DM 50.8-11 is the metaphysical notion of duration understood as permanence in existence and as belonging to every real being in its actual existence. Suárez associates different kinds of duration with the different modes of existence displayed by real beings. The mode of existence relevant to time is that of successive beings: time is the duration of successive things, that is, of change. Suárez’s ambitious project is to offer a “metaphysical deduction” of time from the notion of duration. In this paper I analyze two fundamental aspects of this project: the existence of time and its real identity with change. Suárez emphasizes that both the existence of time and its identity with change can be deduced from general properties of duration. However, he is also very much concerned to show that this deduction does not miss specific features of time.
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- Suárez's Metaphysical DisputationsA Critical Guide, pp. 257 - 276Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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