Salas, V: Immanent Transcendence

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-94-6270-355-1
Verlag: Leuven University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 62, 254 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 520 g

Reihe: Ancient and Medieval Philosophy - Series 1

One of the first book-length
English-language treatments devoted to Francisco Suárez’s metaphysics
Long considered one of late scholasticism’s
most important thinkers, Francisco Suárez has, paradoxically enough, often been
treated only in relation to other medieval authors or as a transitional figure
in the shift from medieval to early modern philosophy. As such, his thought has
often been obscured and framed in terms of an alien paradigm. This book seeks to
correct such approaches and examines Suárez's metaphysical thinking as it
stands on its own. Suárez is shown to be much more in line with his medieval
predecessors who developed their accounts of being to express the theological
commitments they had made. Central to Suárez’s account is a fundamental existential
orientation, one that many interpreters have overlooked in favour of an
understanding of being as reduced to essence or to the thinkable.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Salas, Victor

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Mittelalterliche & Scholastische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments
Note on
Textual Sources

Introduction

1. The Life
and Work of Francisco Suárez

2. The
Theological Context and Purpose of the Suárezian Metaphysics

3.
Interpretive Trends

4. The
Thesis and Structure of the Present Work

Chapter
One: Metaphysics and Its Object

1. Being in
Excess

2. Being in
Restriction

2.1 Divine
Science

2.2 Finite
Being

3. Being as
Transcendent

4.
Conclusion

Chapter
Two: Being and Existence

1. Formal
and Objective Concepts

2. The
Unity of the Concept of Being

3.
Existence and Quiddity

4. Being as
a Participle and as a Noun

5.
Immanence

6.
Conclusion

Chapter
Three: The Transcendentality of Being

1. The
Transcendental Explication of Being

1.1 Ratio
Dubitandi: The Challenge to Transcendental Science

1.2
Suárez’s Transcendental Solution

2.
Transcendentality and Mentalism?

2.1 The
Accusation of Mentalism

2.2 The
Intrinsic Entitative Character of the Transcendentals

2.2.1
Transcendental Unity

2.2.2
Transcendental Truth

2.2.3
Transcendental Goodness

3.
Transcendentality and the Evisceration of Existence?

3.1
Transcendental Enumeration

3.2
Transcendental Reduction: Res

3.3
Transcendental Reduction: Aliquid

3.4 The
Second Transcendental Perspective (Disjunctive Transcendentals)

4. Conclusion

Chapter
Four: Being and Possibility

1. The
Imitation Model

2. Duns
Scotus: Esse intelligibile and Possibility

3. Suárez
on the Divine Cognition of the Possibles

4. Suárez
on the Entitative Status of the Possibles

4.1 The “Essentialism”
of Essences?

4.2
Potential Being (i.e., Objective Potency)

4.3
Futuribilia

5. Suárez
on the Modal Character of Possibility

6.
Conclusion

Chapter
Five: Being and Analogy

1.
Equivocity

2.
Univocity and the Unity of Being

3. Analogy

3.1 Proper
Proportionality

3.2
Attribution

4. An
Unequal, Inner Order

4.1 Inner
Difference

4.2 Inner
Unity

5.
Conclusion

Conclusion

Bibliography
Index Nominum
Index Rerum

Über Autor(innen)

Salas, Victor
Victor M. Salas is an associate professor of Philosophy at Sacred Heart Major Seminary.