452. Better Than Nothing: Metaphysics in the Second Scholastic

Did the metaphysics of Francisco Suárez mark a shift from traditional scholasticism to early modern philosophy?

• S. Duarte (trans.), Francisco Suárez: Metaphysical Disputation II: On the Essential Concept or Concept of Being (Washington DC: 2023). 

• List of English translations of Suárez’s works: www.sydneypenner.ca/SuarTr.shtml

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• G. Capriati, “Fonseca on Causation,” in S. Guidi and M.A. Santiago de Carvalho (eds), Pedro Da Fonseca: Humanism and Metaphysics (Turnhout: 2023), 145-72.

• J.-F. Courtine, Suárez et le système de la métaphysique (Paris: 1990).

• J.P. Doyle, “Suárez on the Analogy of Being,” Modern Schoolman 46 (1969), 29-40 and 219-49.

• J.P. Doyle, “Suárez on Beings of Reason and Truth,” Vivarium 25 (1987), 47-75; 26 (1988), 51-72.

• J.L. Fink (ed.), Suárez on Aristotelian Causality (Leiden: 2015).

• B. Hill and H. Lagerlund, The Philosophy of Francisco Suárez (Oxford: 2012).

• A.D. Karofsky, “Suárez’ Doctrine of Eternal Truths,” Journal of the History of Philosophy 39 (2001), 23-47.

• L. Novák (ed.), Suárez’s Metaphysics in Its Historical and Systematic Context (Berlin: 2014).

• D.D. Novotny, Ens rationis from Suarez to Caramuel: a Study in Scholasticism of the Baroque Era (New York: 2013).

• J. Pereira, Suárez: Between Scholasticism and Modernity (Milwaukee: 2007).

• V. Salas, “Francisco Suárez, the Analogy of Being, and its Tensions,” in L. Novák (ed.), Suárez’s Metaphysics in Its Historical and Systematic Context (Berlin: 2014), 87-

• T.M. Schmaltz, The Metaphysics of the Material World: Suárez, Descartes, Spinoza (Oxford: 2020).

• S. Schmid, “Finality without Final Causes? Suárez’s Account of Natural Teleology,” Ergo 2 (2015).

• D. Schwarz, Interpreting Suárez: Critical Essays (Cambridge: 2012).