Metaphysical Disputations III and IV: On Being's Passions in General and Its Principles and On Transcendental Unity in General (Early Modern Catholic Sources)

Francisco Suárez (1548-1617) was one of the most important philosophers and theologians of early modern Aristotelian scholasticism. Although Suárez spent most of his academic career as a professor of theology, he is better known today for his Metaphysical Disputations (Salamanca, 1597). The present volume contains a facing-page English translation of Metaphysical Disputation II, which is devoted to the nature of real being, the subject of metaphysics. In it, Suárez is especially concerned, first, to argue there is a single nature of being common to all real beings, and second, to show what this nature consists in. The Latin text contained in this volume introduces a significant number of corrections to the text of the Vivès edition, the one standardly used by scholars of Suárez, and thus more faithfully reproduces the text of the first edition. The volume also contains a lengthy introduction that provides a detailed survey of the disputation's principal claims and arguments. Francisco Suárez (1548-1617) was one of the most important philosophers and theologians of Early Modern Scholasticism. Although Suárez spent most of his academic career as a professor of theology, he is better known today for his Metaphysical Disputations (Salamanca, 1597). The present volume contains a facing-page English translation of Metaphysical Disputations III & IV. Metaphysical Disputation III offers a general treatment of the properties of being as such, while Metaphysical Disputation IV deals with one of these properties in particular, transcendental unity. The Latin text contained in this volume introduces a significant number of corrections to the text of the Vivès edition, the one standardly used by scholars of Suárez, and thus more faithfully reproduces the text of the first edition. The volume also contains a lengthy introduction that provides a detailed survey of the disputations' principal claims and arguments. Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Remarks on the Latin Text and the English Translation Latin Abbreviations English Abbreviations Latin Text And English Translation Metaphysical Disputation II: On the Essential Concept or Concept of Being Section 1: Whether in Our Mind Being as Being Has One Formal Concept Common to All Beings Section 2: Whether Being Has a Single Objective Concept, or a Single Objective Formal Character Section 3: Whether the Nature or Concept of Being Is in Some Way Prescinded from Inferiors Really and Antecedently to the Intellect’s Operation Section 4: In What the Nature of Being as Being Consists, and How It Agrees with Inferior Beings Section 5: Whether the Nature of Being Transcends All Natures and Differences of Inferior Beings in Such a Way That It Is Included in Them Intimately and Essentially Section 6: How Being as Being Is Contracted or Determined to Its Inferiors Bibliography Index Although Francisco Suarez spent most of his academic career as a professor of theology, he is better known today for his Metaphysical Disputations (Salamanca, 1597). This volume contains a facing-page English translation of Metaphysical Disputation II, which is devoted to the nature of real being.