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Order of Contents
Suarez’s Writings
On his Thought
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Suarez’s Writings in English
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Metaphysical Disputations
Metaphysical Disputations tr. AI (d. 1617; Paris: Vives, 1877)
Preface i
Plan of Indices iv
[On the English Translation] iv
Index on Aristotle xi
Prologue clxxvii
1. Nature of First Philosophy, or Metaphysics 1
2. Essential Nature or Concept of Being 153
3. Passions of Being in General & its Principles 249
4. Transcendental Unity in General 281
5. Individual Unity & its Principle 357-492
6. Formal & Universal Unity 1
7. Various Kinds of Distinctions 121
8. On Truth or the True, which is a Passion of Being 182
9. On Falsity or the False 274
10. On the Good, or Transcendental Goodness 313
11. Evil 378
12. Causes of Being in General 420
13. Material Cause of Substance 476
14. Material Cause of Accidents 636-722
15. Formal Substantial Cause 1
16. Accidental Formal Cause 168
17. Efficient Cause in General 203
18. Proximate Efficient Cause & its Causality, & all that is required for Causing 234
19. Causes Acting Necessarily & Freely or Contingently; where also concerning Fate, Fortune & Chance 465
20. First Efficient Cause & its Primary Action, which is Creation 604-701
21. First Efficient Cause & its other Action, which is Conservation 1
22. First Cause & its other Action, which is Cooperation or Concurrence with Secondary Causes 43
23. Final Cause in General 147
24. Ultimate Final Cause, or Ultimate End 262
25. Exemplar Causality 285
26. Comparison of Causes to their Effects 330
27. Comparison of Causes among Themselves 412
28. First Division of Being into the simply Infinite & the Finite, & other divisions which are Equivalent to this 441
29. God as the First Being & Uncreated Substance, insofar as his very Existence can be known by Natural Reason 492-588
30. First Being, insofar as What it is & of what Kind it is can be known by Natural Reason 1
31. Essence of Finite Being as such & on its Existence, & on the Distinction between them 400
32. Division of Created Being in Substance & Accident 615
33. Created Substance in General 657
34. First Substance, or the Suppositum, & its Distinction from Nature 1
35. Created Immaterial Substance 186
36. Material Substance in General 314
37. Essential Nature of Accident in General 348
38. Comparison of Accident to Substance 367
39. Division of Accident into Nine Supreme Genera 383
40. Continuous Quantity 443
41. Discrete Quantity & the Coordination of the Category of Quantity & its Properties 584
42. Quality & its Species in General 626-93
43. Potency & Act 1
44. Habits 73
45. Contrariety of Qualities 252
46. Intensification of Qaulities 290
47. Real Relation in General 357-561
48. Action 1
49. Passion 76
50. Category When, & in General on the Duration of Things 113
51. Where, or Ubi 253
52. Position 335
53. Habitus, as Constituting a Certain Genus of Accident 348
54. Beings of Reason 357-423
Philosophical Index
Theological Index
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On Francis Suarez’s Thought
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Surveys of the Whole of his Thought
1600’s
Noel, Francis – A Compendium of R.P. Fancisco Suarez tr. AI (Madrid: 1732; Paris: Migne, 1858) More detailed tables of contents are at the front of each volume.
vol. 1, God, Predestination, Trinity, Angels
Divine Substance
bk. 1, Existence and essence of God; attributes considered generically 3
bk. 2, Negative attributes of God, as He is one 36
bk. 3, Positive attributes of God: knowledge or intellect, will and power 123
Divine Predestination
bk. 1, Necessity and nature of predestination 144
bk. 2, Causes of predestination 177
bk. 3, Effects of predestination and their harmony with free choice 230
bk. 4, God’s supernatural providence regarding the eternal salvation of the reprobate or non-elect 244
bk. 5, Reprobation 250
bk. 6, Certain comparisons between the predestined and the reprobate 261
Triune God
bk. 1, Trinity of Persons and their procession 269
bk. 2, True divinity of the three Persons 287
bk. 3, True distinction of the three Persons and on the predicates that are multiplied in them 295
bk. 4, True unity of the three Persons and other matters pertaining to it 309
bk. 5, Divine reasons and notions 326
bk. 6, Origins and notional acts 336
bk. 7, Properties that constitute the divine Persons, and their constitution 344
bk. 8, The Father 352
bk. 9, The Son 355
bk. 10, Spiration: the Principle of the Holy Spirit 371
bk. 11, The Holy Spirit 381
bk. 12, Mission of the divine Persons 390
Celestial Spirits
bk. 1, Nature, production and quasi-substantial attributes of angels 405
bk. 2, Intellective power of angels and their natural knowledge 427
bk. 3, Will of angels in the pure state of their nature 494
bk. 4, Motive power of angels for transient actions, or for effecting changes 510
bk. 5, State of grace and merit which all the angels had on the way 547
bk. 6, State of the beatitude of the holy angels and their ministries 566
bk. 7, Evil angels: their fall and guilt 609
bk. 8, Punishments and pernicious works or offices of the evil angels 649
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Preface by Noel: “I constantly keep exactly the same order of books, treatises, disputations, chapters, and sections which the author, Father Suárez, observed, so that, if anyone should at times wish to inspect or weigh more fully some subject that has been proposed, he may at once be able to find it in the very archetype without any difficulty or toil. Sometimes, however, for the sake of brevity, I have gathered into a single heading certain chapters of his which were divided, but have a great mutual connexion; yet not even thus is the ease of finding the matter desired taken away, since I always retain the original order of the subject-matter.
Further, if sometimes from the title the sense of the question does not sufficiently appear, I prefix a brief explanation of it, and, when needful, I set out the whole question for clearer understanding by a successive series of cardinal numbers, saying 1, 2, 3, etc., as Father Suárez himself also more frequently is wont to set things forth.
Next, because he oſten prefixes to his own position the diverse opinions of authors or the heresies, I likewise indicate these at the outset along with his own, and at the end I resolve in a body their arguments or objections. Yet do not expect, dear reader, that all and each of the original’s proofs and refutations—especially those drawn from authority—could have been included in so narrow a compendium; I have excerpted only those more necessary, suitable, and effective, for the most part merely indicating the rest in general. Moreover, I have always striven, as briefly as I could, to embrace his whole line of argument and meaning.”
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