On the formal cause of substance : metaphysical disputation XV

On the formal cause of substance : metaphysical disputation XV / Francis Suarez ; translated by John Kronen & Jeremiah Reedy ; introduction and explanatory notes by John Kronen.

A central piece of Suarez's (1584-1617) metaphysics, which is considered important because it was not a commentary on Aristotle, and was used in universities and by both his fellow Jesuits and Protestant scholars and theologians for centuries. He deals with the formal principles of the nature o...

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Main Author: Suárez, Francisco, 1548-1617
Other Authors: Kronen, John, 1961-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Latin
Published: Milwaukee, Wis. : Marquette University Press, ©2000.
Series:Mediaeval philosophical texts in translation ; no. 36.
Subjects:
Suárez, Francisco.
Substance (Philosophy)
Form (Philosophy)
PHILOSOPHY > Metaphysics.
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Uniform Title:De causa formali substantiali.
Table of Contents:
  • Whether there are substantial forms in material things
  • In what way substantial forms can come to be in and from matter
  • Whether matter temporally precedes form in every eduction of the substantial form
  • Whether, when form is educed from matter, it comes to be as such (per se)
  • Concerning the proper nature of the substantial form and the nature of its causality
  • Concerning the nature of formal causality
  • What the effect of the formal cause is
  • Whether the substantial form is a true cause of matter and matter is its effect
  • Whether the dependence of matter on form is so great that without form matter could not be conserved even through the divine power, nor form without matter
  • Whether there is only one formal cause for one substance
  • On the metaphysical form, the matter that corresponds to it, and the causality it exercises.

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