This is the first German volume for more than one century, dealing with the two main subjects that have dominated the present reception of the Spanish philosopher and theologian Francisco Suárez (1548-1617): metaphysics and law theory. The contributors discuss both Suárez as an influential thinker of modern European school metaphysics and as a representant of a global law philosophy and ethics. They also debate on the combination of theory and praxis in the light of the question which commitment a (...) universal First Philosophy could have today. The volume is complimented by an introduction to Suárez's works and vita, an overview and guide to recent primary and secondary literature, as well as a name register.--publlisher's desciption. (shrink)

This is a bilingual edition of the selected peer-reviewed papers that were submitted for the International Symposium on Jesuit Studies on the thought of the Jesuit Francisco Suárez (1548-1617). The symposium was co-organized in Seville in 2018 by the Departamento de Humanidades y Filosofía at Universidad Loyola Andalucía and the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College. Suárez was a theologian, philosopher and jurist who had a significant cultural impact on the development of modernity. Commemorating the four-hundredth anniversary (...) of his death, the symposium studied the work of Suárez and other Jesuits of his time in the context of diverse traditions that came together in Europe between the late Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and early modernity. (shrink)

Francisco Suárez (1548–1617) sieht es als Problem an, dass nach dem traditionellen Modell der Kunstproduktion der Gedanke immer nur als Vorkonzeption und damit auf sehr vermittelte Weise in das Kunstwerk eingeht.

This book examines the thought of scholasticism’s Doctor eximius in its entirety: both philosophically and theologically. Many of the most distinctive features of Suárez’s thought are identified and evaluated in light of his immediate historical context. What emerges from the studies contained in this volume is the picture of a thinker who is profoundly steeped in the riches of divergent schools of thought and yet who manages to find his own unique voice to add to the chorus of scholasticism.

Publisher's description: Warum können Normen und Gesetze zu bestimmten Handlungen verpflichten? Was genau ist eine rechtliche oder moralische Verpflichtung, wie wirkt sie und wie entsteht sie? Und wer darf und kann überhaupt wirksam verpflichten? Antwortversuche auf derlei Fragen führen zu den Grundlagen und Voraussetzungen von Rechtstheorie und Moralphilosophie. Gelingt es, solche Grundlagen auf die Natur des Menschen und damit auf die Möglichkeiten und Bedingungen seines Erkennens, Wollens und Handelns zurückzuführen, so kann eine Letztbegründung von Recht und Moral versucht werden. In (...) der Folge liesse sich eine Konzeption des natürlichen Rechts herleiten, die ihrerseits die Grundlage für das heute vorherrschende positivistische Rechtsverständnis bilden würde. Francisco Suárez S. J. (1548-1617) unternimmt einen solchen Versuch in seinen verschiedenen Schriften zur Rechtphilosophie und Moraltheologie und leistet damit nicht nur einen historisch relevanten Beitrag zur Naturrechtstradition der Frühen Neuzeit, sondern ebenso zu systematischen Problemstellungen der heutigen philosophischen Debatte, beginnend bei der Fundierung von Moralität im individuellen Gewissen bis hin zu Wesen und Ausgestaltung des Völkerrechts. Stefan Schweighöfer zeigt die Verbindungslinien zwischen den verschiedenen Werken von Francisco Suárez und rekonstruiert so philosophische Positionen, die man gewöhnlich erst in der Tradition Kants verortet. Dabei werden insbesondere auch die Schriften berücksichtigt, die bisher in keiner modernen Sprache zugänglich sind. (shrink)

The thought and work of the Jesuit Francisco Suárez (1548-1617) is widely acknowledged as the culmination point of the contribution of the theologians and jurists of the so-called School of Salamanca to the development of modern Western law. This collection of studies on the legal work of Suárez explores some of his major forays into the law. Both his theoretical system-building as well as his interventions in practical questions are covered. Next to discussions on the nature of law and (...) its different categorisations, they extend to various subbranches of the law including family law, property law, the law of obligations, criminal law and international law. Contributors are: Dominique Bauer, Daniel Schwartz, João Manuel Azevedo Alexandrino Fernandes, Lisa Brunori, Wim Decock, Bart Wauters, Gaëlle Demelemestre, and Jean-Paul Coujou. (shrink)

This study aims to present a comparative analysis of philosophical theories of universals espoused by the foremost representatives of the three main schools of early modern scholastic thought. The book introduces the doctrines of Francisco Suárez, S.J. (1548-1617), the Thomist John of St. Thomas, O.P. (1589-1644), and the Scotists Bartolomeo Mastri da Meldola, O.F.M. Conv. (1602-1673) and Bonaventura Belluto, O.F.M. Conv. (1600-1676). The author examines in detail their mutual doctrinal delineation as well as the conceptualist tenet of the Jesuit (...) Pedro Hurtado de Mendoza (1578-1641), whose thought constitutes an important systematic point of comparison especially with Suárez's doctrine. The book offers the first comparative elaboration of the issue of universals, in both its metaphysical and its epistemological aspects, in the era of second scholasticism. (shrink)

[1]. Liber V, De varietate legum humanarum et praesertim de odiosis --- [2]. Liber VI, de interpretatione, cessatione et mutatione legis humanae.

This is the first time that the Disputations 20-22 have been translated into English. They deal with the divine action of creation, conservation and concurrence.

La dispute LIV acheve l'ensemble monumental des Disputes metaphysiques de Suarez publiees en 1597. L'etudes des etres de raison (intentions logiques, relations logiques) constitue l'aboutissement de la division ontologique effectuee entre l'etant fini et l'etant infini a la dispute XXVIII. Alors que la metaphysique est identifiee a une science de l'etant comme etant reel, comment rendre compte de l'etude des etres de raison, de leur etantite et de leur fonction dans le systeme du savoir, sans remettre en question la legitimite (...) de ce dernier? (shrink)

In the course of his argument, Suarez rejects any "physical" demonstration, which would employ the Aristotelian principle, "Everything which is moved is moved by another," in order to pass from motion to a First Mover. Other topics that he treats include, in Disputation 28, the analogy of being between God and creatures, and in Disputation 29, the fact that there is only one God who is the creator of all else."--BOOK JACKET.