Francisco Suárez (1548-1617) was one of the most important
philosophers and theologians of Early Modern Scholasticism.
Although Suárez spent most of his academic career as a professor
of theology, he is better known today for his Metaphysical
Disputations (Salamanca, 1597). The present volume contains a
facing-page English translation of Metaphysical Disputation I,
which is introductory and devoted to the nature of metaphysics
itself. In it, Suárez first specifies this science’s object and
nature (Sections 1 and 2) and then discusses its unity (Section 3),
its end, utility and functions (Section 4), its status as the most
perfect natural science and true wisdom (Section 5), and finally
the thesis that it is the science most of all desired by means of a
natural appetite (Section 6). Those interested in late scholastic
conceptions of metaphysics and their influence on the better known
metaphysical systems of the seventeenth century – e.g.,
Descartes’s – will find the volume especially useful. The Latin
text contained in this volume introduces a significant number of
corrections to the text of the Vivès edition, the one standardly
used by scholars of Suárez, and thus more faithfully reproduces
the text of the first edition. The volume also contains a lengthy
introduction that provides a detailed survey of the disputation’s
principal claims and arguments.
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