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Although the importance of Francisco Suarez has been, for some time
already, generally recognized even outside the circles of
historians of scholasticism, the wider context of his thought -
i.e., the rich and diverse Renaissance and Baroque scholasticism -
remains largely unexplored. This book is an attempt to contribute
to the quest of putting Suarez's metaphysics (a mere fragment of
the whole of his intellectual legacy) into context, historical and
systematic. Being the fruit of an international conference held in
Prague in October 2008, it puts together a systematically ordered
selection of papers devoted to general and specific topics of
Suarezian metaphysics, with special respect to its sources and
further impact. Part One explores in the first place the notion of
being and the nature of metaphysics in general; Part Two then deals
with more specific metaphysical topics such as the problem of
universals, causality, relations, and God. The book will be of
value not just to Suarez-scholars, but to anyone interested in the
history of ideas in general and in the the intricacies of
metaphysical thought at the verge of modernity in particular.
Throughout the greater part of the twentieth century, both in the
analytic and continental traditions, metaphysics was deemed to be
passe. The last few decades, however, have witnessed a remarkable
growth of interest among analytic philosophers in various
traditional metaphysical topics, such as modality, truth,
causality, etc. which resulted in the emergence of various forms of
analytic metaphysics. The new forms of metaphysics differ from its
traditional forms mostly in their methodology (we may notice
various applications of contemporary formal logical techniques) and
in the range of proposed solutions to particular problems. Besides
these and other differences, however, there are also many
similarities and there are even some who intentionally develop
traditional metaphysical themes using the contemporary analytical
methods. All these developments call for detailed exploration,
which is the general goal of the present publication Metaphysics:
Aristotelian, Scholastic, Analytic. The publication is the fruit of
the conference which took place in Prague in 2010 and which had for
its aim to bring together those willing to explore relations
between the traditional and contemporary concerns, both from among
the leading analytic philosophers working in metaphysics and the
historians of philosophy devoted to the study of the metaphysical
tradition. The specific focus of the conference was a
re-examination of topics such as categories, metaphysical
structure, substance and accident, existence, modalities, and
predication."
This volume re-examines some of the major themes at the
intersection of traditional and contemporary metaphysics. The book
uses as a point of departure Francisco Suarez's Metaphysical
Disputations published in 1597. Minimalist metaphysics in
empiricist/pragmatist clothing have today become mainstream in
analytic philosophy. Independently of this development, the
progress of scholarship in ancient and medieval philosophy makes
clear that traditional forms of metaphysics have affinities with
some of the streams in contemporary analytic metaphysics. The book
brings together leading contemporary metaphysicians to investigate
the viability of a neo-Aristotelian metaphysics.
This volume re-examines some of the major themes at the
intersection of traditional and contemporary metaphysics. The book
uses as a point of departure Francisco Suarez's Metaphysical
Disputations published in 1597. Minimalist metaphysics in
empiricist/pragmatist clothing have today become mainstream in
analytic philosophy. Independently of this development, the
progress of scholarship in ancient and medieval philosophy makes
clear that traditional forms of metaphysics have affinities with
some of the streams in contemporary analytic metaphysics. The book
brings together leading contemporary metaphysicians to investigate
the viability of a neo-Aristotelian metaphysics.
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