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  • Chapter 2 - Suárez’s Metaphysics of Modality

  • from Part II - Being, Its Properties, and Ancillary Notions
  • Edited by Shane Duarte, Sydney Penner, Asbury University, Kentucky
  • Book:
    Suárez's <i>Metaphysical Disputations</i>
    Published online:
    13 October 2025
    Print publication:
    30 October 2025, pp 35-53

  • Summary

    Metaphysics, Suárez teaches in Metaphysical Disputation I, is the science of being insofar as it is real being. Later he clarifies that this ‘being’ encompasses real natures, whether they actually exist or not. It seems therefore that for Suárez metaphysics engages not only with the most general features of actual things, but also with those of possible things. But to what extent are there possible things for Suárez in the first place? What does it mean for a thing or nature to be possible? And how do possible things relate to actual things? By answering these questions, the chapter reconstructs Suárez’s metaphysics of modality in general and illuminates his widely debated theory of necessary and eternal truths in particular.