Baroque Metaphysics. Studies on Francisco Suárez

This book collects six unpublished and published academic studies on the thought of Francisco Suárez, which is addressed through accurate textual analyses and meticulous contextualization of his doctrines in the Scholastic debate. The present essays aim to portray two complementary aspects coexisting in the work of the Uncommon Doctor: his innovative approach and his adherence to the tradition. To this scope, they focus on some pivotal, but often neglected, topics in Suárez's metaphysics and psychology - such as his theories of cognition and truth, angelology, continuous quantity - thereby developing an original inquiry into a crucial moment in the development of Western philosophy. Contents: 1. The Order of Knowledge: Fonseca and Suárez on the Confused and Distinct Starting Point of Science (21-76) 2. The Truth We Know. Reassessing Suárez's Account of Cognitive Truth and Objective Being (77-114) 3. Is Truth a Property of Things? Suárez's Razor on Transcendental Truth (115-154) 4. "Solo lumine naturae utens". Suárez and the ratio angeli. Remarks on DM 35, 1-3 (155-184) 5. Suárez's Metaphysical Investigations on Angelic Intellects. A Comparative Reading of DM 35, 4 and De Angelis, II (185-229) 6. Suárez's Entitative Extension and its Reception Until Descartes (231-260) Bibliography & References (261-292) Index Nominum & Rerum (293-301)