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Ideas of Francisco Suárez, by Text

[Spanish, 1548 - 1617, Born in Spain. Taught at Coimbra from 1597 to 1616. A Jesuit. Died in Lisbon.]

1588 works
p.26 13074 Only natural kinds and their members have real essences [Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]
p.56 7563 The old 'influx' view of causation says it is a flow of accidental properties from A to B [Jolley]
1597 Disputationes metaphysicae
p.257 16667 Substances are incomplete unless they have modes [Pasnau]
15.1.7 p.562 17007 Forms must rule over faculties and accidents, and are the source of action and unity
15.10.30 p.631 16780 Partial forms of leaf and fruit are united in the whole form of the tree
15.10.64 p.561 16758 The best support for substantial forms is the co-ordinated unity of a natural being
40.2.21 p.313 16682 Other things could occupy the same location as an angel
40.4.16 p.539 16743 We can get at the essential nature of 'quantity' by knowing bulk and extension
40.4.16 p.539 16742 We only know essences through non-essential features, esp. those closest to the essence
7.1.17 p.255 16665 There are entities, and then positive 'modes', modifying aspects outside the thing's essence
7.1.17 p.256 16666 A mode determines the state and character of a quantity, without adding to it
7.65 p.89 22143 Identity does not exclude possible or imagined difference [Boulter]
Bk VII p.97 22146 Minor Real distinction: B needs A, but A doesn't need B [Boulter]
Bk VII p.97 22145 Major Real distinction: A and B have independent existences [Boulter]
Bk VII p.97 22144 Real Essential distinction: A and B are of different natural kinds [Boulter]
Bk VII p.98 22147 Conceptual/Mental distinction: one thing can be conceived of in two different ways [Boulter]
Bk VII p.100 22148 Modal distinction: A isn't B or its property, but still needs B [Boulter]
Bk VII p.102 22149 Scholastics assess possibility by what has actually happened in reality [Boulter]