Interpreting Suarez - Critical Essays

Informationen zum Autor Daniel Schwartz is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of Aquinas on Friendship (2007). Klappentext An essay collection giving new attention to the metaphysics! meta-ethics! ethics and political philosophy of this influential sixteenth-century theologian. Zusammenfassung An essay collection giving new attention to the metaphysics, meta-ethics, ethics and political philosophy of the influential sixteenth-century Jesuit theologian Francisco Suárez. This book will be suitable for those with an interest in premodern and early modern philosophy but who lack the background in medieval philosophy and Latin. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction Daniel Schwartz; 2. Fundamentals in Suárez's metaphysics: transcendentals and categories Jorge J. E. Gracia and Daniel D. Novotný; 3. The reality of substantial form: Suárez, metaphysical disputations XV Christopher Shields; 4. Suárez on the ontology of relations Jorge Secada; 5. Suárez's cosmological argument for the existence of God Bernie Cantens; 6. Action and freedom in Suárez's ethics Thomas Pink; 7. Obligation, rightness, and natural law: Suárez and some critics Terence H. Irwin; 8. Suárez on distributive justice Daniel Schwartz; 9. Suárez on just war Gregory M. Reichberg.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Schwartz
• Assisted by: Daniel Schwartz (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2011
• EAN: 9780521509657
• ISBN: 978-0-521-50965-7
• No. of pages: 228
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Medieval, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600, Medieval Western philosophy