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Title

On real relation = (Disputatio metaphysica XLVII) / Francisco Suárez ; a translation from the Latin, with an introduction and notes by John P. Doyle.

Author

Suárez, Francisco, 1548-1617.

Publication

Milwaukee, Wis. : Marquette University Press, [2006], ©2006.

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Additional Authors

Doyle, John P., 1930-

Description

431 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Mediaeval philosophical texts in translation ; no. 42

Uniform Title

Mediaeval philosophical texts in translation ; no. 42.

Subject

• Relation (Philosophy)
• Ontology
• Transcendentals

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [411]-417) and indexes.

Contents

I. Introduction -- A. Suarez, the man, his work, and his place in the history of philosophy -- B. Suarez as a disciple of Aristotle -- C. Relation in Aristotelian philosophy -- 1. Principal places in which Aristotle treats the category of relation : Categories, c. 7 and Metaphysics V, c. 15 -- 2. A wider overview -- 3. Some connected issues -- D. Suarez on relation -- 1. Two chief places in the Disputationes metaphysicae -- 2. Some other places in the Disputationes -- 3. Some theological concerns - Christian dimensions both in Suarez's sources and in his own doctrine - especially trinity and incarnation -- E. Summaries of the sections of disputation 47 -- II. Translator's notes : the terminology of relation -- III. Disputation forty-seven : "about created real relations" - English translation -- Sect. I. Whether relation is a true category of real being, different from other categories? -- Sect. II. Whether a categorical relation is actually and really distinguished from all absolute beings? -- Sect. III. How many kinds of relation exist? : and which is truly categorical? -- Sect. IV. How does a categorical relation differ from a transcendental one? -- Sect. V. What is the essential definition of a categorical relation? -- Sect. VI. About the subject of a categorical relation -- Sect. VII. About the foundation of a categorical relation and about the reason for that foundation -- Sect. VIII. About the terminus of a categorical relation -- Sect. IX. What distinction must there be between the foundation and the terminus of a relation? -- Sect. X. Whether three kinds of relatives were correctly divided on a threefold basis by Aristotle? -- Sect. XI. About the first kind of relations, based on number or unity -- Sect. XII. About the second kind of relations, based on potency or action -- Sect. XIII. About the third kind of relations, based on the character of measure -- Sect. XIV. Is the mentioned division sufficient, and does it comprehend all relations? -- Sect. XV. Whether all the relations of the third kind, and only these, are non-mutual? - where we discuss the relations of God to creatures -- Sect. XVI. Is the formal terminus of a relation another relation or some absolute character? - where incidentally various questions are also explained -- Sect. XVII. In what way the category "toward something" can be ordered under one supreme genus - where we also discuss the individual distinction of relations -- Sect. XVIII. What are the properties of a relation? -- IV. Disputation forty-seven : "De Relationibus Realibus Creatis" - a Latin transcription -- V. Persons mentioned by Suarez in the forty-seventh disputation -- VI. Bibliography -- VII. Index of names -- VIII. Subject index.

ISBN

087462245X (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2006003693
• 9780874622454

OCLC

• ocm63703813
• SCSB-5247845

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries