Jesuit Philosophy on the Eve of Modernity

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Heider, Daniel
Jesuit Psychology and the Theory of Knowledge.
Jesuit Philosophy on the Eve of Modernity. Leiden: Brill, 2019 - (Casalini, C.), s. 115-134. Jesuit studies. Modernity through the prism of Jesuit history, 20. ISBN 978-90-04-39439-1
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Keywords : Francisco Suárez * Pedro Hurtado de Mendoza * vital powers * sensibles species * external senses
OECD category: Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

The chapters deals with two topics in two foremost philosophers in the second and the third generation of the early Society of Jesus, namely in Francisco Suárez (1548-1617) a Pedro Hurtada de Mendozy (1578-1641). It is the problem of the nature of the distinction between the soul or the composite of the soul and body on one side and vital powers on the other side. The second issue is the topic of the (non)existence of the so-called sensible species, which in Aristotelian-scholastic tradition represents the crucial explanatory principle of sensory perception. The author shows how the two authors in their approaches and theories differ, and claims that with Hurtado the early Jesuit philosophy enters the era that is significantly marked by the return to nominalist heritage.
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