Interpreting Suárez

Critical Essays

Daniel Schwartz

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN:
  9780521509657
• eBook ISBN:
  9781139180405
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Medieval & Renaissance Philosophy

Francisco Suárez is arguably the most important Neo-Scholastic philosopher and a vital link in the chain leading from medieval philosophy to that of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. Long neglected by the Anglo-Saxon philosophical community, this sixteenth-century Jesuit theologian is now an object of intense scholarly attention. In this volume, Daniel Schwartz brings together essays by leading specialists which provide detailed treatment of some key themes of Francisco Suárez's philosophical work: God, metaphysics, meta-ethics, the human soul, action, ethics and law, justice and war. The authors assess the force of Suárez's arguments, set them within their wider argumentative context and single out influences and appraise competing interpretations. The book is a useful resource for scholars and students of philosophy, theology, philosophy of religion and history of political thought and provides a rich bibliography of secondary literature.

Table of contents

• Cover
• INTERPRETING SUÁREZ
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Notes on contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations and method of citation
• CHAPTER 1 Introduction
• CHAPTER 2 Fundamentals in Suárez’s metaphysics: transcendentals and categories
• CHAPTER 3 The reality of substantial form: Suárez, Metaphysical Disputations xv
• CHAPTER 4 Suárez on the ontology of relations
• CHAPTER 5 Suárez’s cosmological argument for the existence of God
• CHAPTER 6 Action and freedom in Suárez’s ethics
• CHAPTER 7 Obligation, rightness, and natural law: Suárez and some critics
• CHAPTER 8 Suárez on distributive justice
• CHAPTER 9 Suárez on just war
• Bibliography
• Index