A Companion to Francisco Suárez

0437292 - FLÚ 2015 RIV NL eng M - Monography Chapter
Heider, Daniel
Suárez on the Metaphysics and Epistemology of Universals.
A Companion to Francisco Suárez. Leiden: Brill, 2014 - (Salas, V.), s. 164-191. Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, 38. ISBN 978-90-04-28158-5
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Keywords : Suárez * Scotus * Fonseca * common nature * universals * formal unity * universal unity * abstraction * logical intention
Subject RIV: AA - Philosophy ; Religion

The chapter analyses the metaphysical and epistemological aspects of the theory of general concepts of Francisco Suárez (1548-1617). It presents Suárez's conception of the formal and universal unity in the background of the doctrines of John Duns Scotus, the teaching of Peter Fonseca and the Thomistic theory. It pays attention also to the Suarezian theory of abstractive and relational mental operations forming the various kinds of universality, which are the so-called first and second (logical) intentions.
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