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
- Chapter 11 Suárez’s Partial Pluralism About Substantial Form
- Chapter 12 Suárez on Prime Matter, Extension, and Quantity
- Part V Categories
- Bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE CRITICAL GUIDES
Chapter 11 - Suárez’s Partial Pluralism About Substantial Form
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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
- Chapter 11 Suárez’s Partial Pluralism About Substantial Form
- Chapter 12 Suárez on Prime Matter, Extension, and Quantity
- Part V Categories
- Bibliography
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE CRITICAL GUIDES
Summary
Recent scholarship presents Suárez as falling in a broadly Thomist tradition regarding the question of how many substantial forms a material substance can have. Scholars present Suárez as endorsing a unitarian view of substantial forms due to Thomistic concerns about substantial unity. I argue that this interpretation is mistaken, and that it obscures an important difference between Suárez’s brand of unitarianism and Aquinas’s. Suárez does not have a unity argument against plurality of substantial forms because he has the metaphysical resources to account for the unity of a substance with multiple substantial forms. It is also a mistake to claim, as some scholars do, that Suárez was a unitarian in the same sense that Aquinas was: unlike Aquinas, Suárez thinks that non-human organisms contain multiple substantial forms. Paying close attention to the differences between Suárezian and Thomistic unitarianism results in a more nuanced picture of the plurality of forms debate.
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- Suárez's Metaphysical DisputationsA Critical Guide, pp. 201 - 220Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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