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Informationen zum Autor Benjamin Hill received his PhD from the University of Iowa in 2003 and has taught at the University of Western Ontario since 2005. He works mainly on John Locke and seventeenth-century metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophy of mind.Henrik Lagerlund received his PhD from Uppsala University in 1999 and is currently Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario. He has published extensively on medieval philosophy, including the monograph Modal Syllogistics in the Middle Ages (Brill, 2000). Among his edited books are Rethinking the History of Skepticism (Brill, 2010) and Representation and Objects of Thought in Medieval Philosophy (Ashgate, 2008). He is also the editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy (Springer, 2011). Klappentext During the 17th century Francisco Suarez was considered one of the greatest philosophers of the age and now he is re-emerging as a subject of major critical and historical investigation. This book explores his work on ethics, metaphysics, ontology, and theology. Zusammenfassung During the seventeenth century Francisco Suárez was considered one of the greatest philosophers of the age: he is now reemerging as a major subject of critical and historical investigation. A leading team of scholars explore his work on ethics, metaphysics, ontology, and theology. This will be the starting-point for future research on Suárez. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction I: Background and Influence 1: Michael Edwards: Suarez in a Late Scholastic Context: Anatomy, Psychology and Authority 2: Roger Ariew: Descartes and Leibniz as Readers of Suárez: Theory of Distinctions and Principle of Individuation II: Metaphysics 3: Christopher Shields: Shadows of Being: Francisco Suárez's Entia Rationis 4: Jorge Secada: Suárez on Continuous Quantity III: Natural Philosophy 5: Dennis Des Chene: Suárez on Propinquity and the Efficient Cause 6: Helen Hattab: Suárez's Last Stand for the Substantial Form IV: Mind and Psychology 7: James B. South: Suárez, Immortality, and the Soul's Dependence on the Body 8: Cees Leijenhorst: Suárez on Self-Awareness 9: Marleen Rozemond: Unity in the Multiplicity of Suárez's Soul V: Ethics and Natural Law 10: Thomas Pink: Reason and Obligation in Suárez 11: James Gordley: Suárez and Natural Law Bibliography Index ...
