FRANCISCO See also:SUAREZ (1548-1617)
, See also:Spanish theologian and philosopher, was See also:born at See also:Granada on the 5th of See also:January 1548, and educated at See also:Salamanca
.
Influenced by the Jesuit See also:John Ramirez he entered the Society of Jesus in 1564, and after teaching See also:philosophy at See also:Segovia, taught See also:theology at See also:Valladolid, at See also:Alcala, at Salamanca, and at See also:Rome successively
.
After taking his doctorate at See also:Evora, he was named by See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip II. See also:principal See also:professor of theology at See also:Coimbra
.
See also:Suarez may be considered almost the last eminent representative of See also:scholasticism
.
In philosophical See also:doctrine he adhered to a moderate Thomism
.
On the question of universals he endeavoured to See also:steer a See also:middle course between the pantheistically inclined See also:realism of See also:Duns Scotus and the extreme See also:nominalism of See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William of See also:Occam
.
The only veritable and real unity in the See also:world of existences is the individual; to assert that the universal exists separately ex See also:pane rei would be to reduce individuals to See also:mere accidents of one indivisible See also:form
.
Suarez maintains that, though the humanity of See also:Socrates does not differ from that of See also:Plato, yet they do not constitute realiter one and the same humanity; there are as many " formal unities " (in this See also:case, humanities) as there are individuals, and these individuals do not constitute a factual, but only an. essential or ideal unity (" ita ut plura individua, quae dicuntur esse ejusdem naturae, non sint unum quid See also:vera entitate quae sit in See also:rebus, sed solum fundamentaliter vel per intellectum ")
.
The formal unity,,however, is not an arbitrary creation of the mind, but exists " in natura rei ante omnem operationem intellectus." In theology, Suarez attached himself to the doctrine of Luis See also:Molina, the celebrated Jesuit professor of Evora
.
Molina tried to reconcile the doctrine of See also:predestination. with the freedom of the human will by saying that the, pre-destination is consequent upon See also:God's foreknowledge of the See also:free determination of See also:man's will, which is therefore in no way affected by the fact of such predestination
.
Suarez endeavoured to reconcile this view with the more orthodox doctrines of the efficacy of See also:- GRACE (Fr. grace, Lat. gratia, from grates, beloved, pleasing; formed from the root cra-, Gr. xav-, cf. xaipw, x6p,ua, Xapts)
- GRACE, WILLIAM GILBERT (1848– )
grace and See also:special See also:election, maintaining that, though all See also:share in an absolutely sufficient grace, there is granted to the elect a grace which is so adapted to their See also:peculiar dispositions and circumstances that they infallibly, though at the same See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time quite freely, yield themselves to its See also:influence
.
This mediatizing See also:system was known by the name of " congruism," Suarez is probably more important, however, as a philosophical jurist than as a theologian or metaphysician
.
In his extensive See also:work Tractatus de legibus ac deo legislatore (reprinted, See also:London, 1679) he is to some extent the precursor of See also:Grotius and See also:Samuel See also:Pufendorf
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Though his method is throughout scholastic, he covers the same ground, and Grotius speaks of him in terms of high respect
.
The fundamental position of the work is that all legislative as well as all paternal See also:power is derived from God, and that the authority of every See also:law resolves itself into His
.
Suarez refutes the patriarchal theory of See also:government and the divine right of See also:kings founded upon it—doctrines popular at that time in See also:England and to some extent on the See also:Continent
.
Power by its very nature belongs to no one man but to a multitude of men; and the See also:reason is obvious, since all men are born equal
.
It has been pointed out that this accords well with the Jesuit policy of depreciating the royal while exalting the papal See also:prerogative
.
But Suarez is much more moderate on this point than a writer like See also:Mariana, approximating to the See also:modern view of the rights of ruler and ruled
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In 1613, at the instigation of See also:Pope See also:Paul V., Suarez wrote a See also:treatise dedicated to the See also:Christian princes of See also:Europe, entitled Defensio catholicae fidei contra anglicanae sectae errores
.
This was directed against the See also:oath of See also:allegiance
which See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James I. exacted from his subjects
.
James caused it to
be burned by the See also:common hangman, and forbade its perusal
under the severest penalties, complaining bitterly at the sametime to Philip III. that he should See also:harbour in his dominions a declared enemy of the See also:throne and See also:majesty of kings
.
Suarez lived a very humble and See also:simple See also:life
.
He died after a few days' illness on the 25th of See also:September 1617 at See also:Lisbon
.
The collected See also:works of Suarez have been printed at See also:Mainz and See also:Lyons (1630), at See also:Venice (1740-1751), at See also:Besancon (1856–1862) and in the collection of the See also:Abbe See also:Migne
.
His life has been written by See also:Deschamps (Vita Fr
.
Suaresii, See also:Perpignan, 1671)
.
The See also:chief modern authorities are K
.
See also:Werner's See also:Franz Suarez u. See also:die Scholastik der letzten Jahrhunderte (See also:Regensburg, 1861), and Steckl's Geschichte See also:des Phflosophie des Mittelalters, iii
.
643 seq
.
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