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- Title
FRANCISCO SUÁREZ. ÚLTIMO MEDIEVAL, PRIMEIRO MODERNO: A IDEIA EXEMPLAR.
- Authors
Guilherme Raposo, Eva Rodrigues Ferreira
- Abstract
Francisco Suárez (1548-1617) represents, in the context of the Second Scholastic, an incessant search of modernity to try and redesign a new philosophy that would fulfill the demands of modern science and also the request of a new political and epistemological world. This determination, as well as the interest in studying Aristotle and St. Tomas Aquinas, would become a reference to the authors of their time and would education the formation of modern philosophers. Francisco Suárez dedicates a whole chapter to the 'exemplary cause' of this Disputationes Metaphysicae, his most emblematic work, where he studies in a non linear way, but in one associated to the natural world. The core of his way of thinking lies on the idea of causality or free will, which is the principle of intelligibility, since understanding a cause means comprehending the internal structure of any substance. The exemplary cause is not considered as a sort of fundamental cause, but as the primary aspect of a chain of causes. The notion of a causal order in the world goes back to God as first cause. God, eternal and immutable substance, identified as the supreme goodness and intelligibility, moves everything else, therefore constituting the primary cause, the world's active principle.
- Subjects
SUAREZ, Francisco, 1548-1617; METAPHYSICS; PHILOSOPHY &; religion; THEORY of knowledge; PRINCIPLE (Philosophy)
- Publication
Cauriensia: Revista Anual de Ciencias Eclesiásticas, 2010, Vol 5, p261
- ISSN
1886-4945
- Publication type
Article