Efficient Causality and Divine Concurrence in the Disputationes Metaphysicae of Francisco Suárez and in the Colombricense's Commentary to Aristotle's Physics

  • Silvia Manzo Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Keywords: Efficient causation, Concurrentism, Early modernity, late Scholasticism, natural Philosophy

Abstract

In Francisco Suárez' Disputationes Metaphysicae and the Coimbran commentaries on Aristotle's works are to be found critical and innovative stances toward Aristotle and Aquinas. As transitional exponents of late Scholasticism at the turn of seventeenth century, their works are relevant case studies to understanding early-modern natural philosophy. Efficient causation is a central issue to such understanding. A particularly controversial point of the views on efficient causation in this background was the exact meaning of divine concurrence with secondary causes. This paper aims to explore Suarez' (part 1) and the Coimbrans' (part 2) accounts of efficient causation and divine concurrence in the context of Thomist concurrentism.

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Published
2011-06-06
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Manzo, S. (2011). Efficient Causality and Divine Concurrence in the Disputationes Metaphysicae of Francisco Suárez and in the Colombricense’s Commentary to Aristotle’s Physics. Patristica Et Mediævalia, 32, 51-66. Retrieved from http://revistascientificas2.filo.uba.ar/index.php/petm/article/view/7783
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Vol 32 (2011)
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