Interpreting Suárez: Critical Essays

by Edited by Daniel Schwartz

• ISBN13: 9780521509657
• ISBN10: 0521509653
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-01-16
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Francisco Su rez 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 Su rez's philosophical work: God, metaphysics, meta-ethics, the human soul, action, ethics and law, justice and war. The authors assess the force of Su rez'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

Notes on contributors	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Abbreviations and method of citation	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
Fundamentals in Suárez's metaphysics: transcendentals and categories	p. 19
The reality of substantial form: Suárez, Metaphysical Disputations xv	p. 39
Suárez on the ontology of relations	p. 62
Suárez's cosmological argument for the existence of God	p. 89
Action and freedom in Suarez's ethics	p. 115
Obligation, Tightness, and natural law: Suarez and some critics	p. 142
Suárez on distributive justice	p. 163
Suárez on just war	p. 185
Bibliography	p. 205
Index	p. 214
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