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  • Chapter 12 - Suárez on Prime Matter, Extension, and Quantity

  • from Part IV - Corporeal Substance
  • 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 221-238

  • Summary

    This chapter considers the intricate account in Suárez’s Disputationes metaphysicae of the “matter” (hylê) portion of his hylomorphic conception of the material world. There is a focus on the interrelations among the notions of prime matter, extension, and quantity in this account. Suárez in fact posits three different kinds of extension: the penetrable and divisible extension of prime matter, itself an “incomplete substance” with its own mereological structure; the penetrable and indivisible extension of angelic substances, which extension such substances occupy “whole in whole and whole in each part”; and the impenetrable and divisible extension of quantity, which extension is a causal result of this “real accident.” Suárez’s treatment of these three kinds of extension is related to the relevant scholastic debates he engaged as well as to the more “modern” views of Descartes, Hobbes, and More.