Universals in second scholasticism : a comparative study with focus on the theories of Francisco Suárez S.J. (1548-1617), Joao Poinsot O.P. (1589-1644) and Bartolomeo Mastri da Meldola O.F.M. Conv. (1602-1673)/Bonaventura Belluto O.F.M. Conv. (1600-1676) / Daniel Heider.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This study aims to present a comparative analysis of philosophical theories of universals espoused by the foremost representatives of the three main schools of early modern scholastic thought. The book introduces the doctrines of Francisco Suárez, S.J. (1548-1617), the Thomist John of St. Thomas, O.P. (1589-1644), and the Scotists Bartolomeo Mastri da Meldola, O.F.M. Conv. (1602-1673) and Bonaventura Belluto, O.F.M. Conv. (1600-1676). The author examines in detail their mutual doctrinal delineation as well as the conceptualist tenet of the Jesuit Pedro Hurtado de Mendoza (1578-1641), whose tho.

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UNIVERSALS IN SECOND SCHOLASTICISM; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication page; Acknowledgments; Table of contents; 1. Introduction; 1.1 The issue of universals in Scholasticism; 1.2 Historical context: Thomism, Nominalism, Jesuit philosophy and Scotism; 1.3 Goal and methodology; 1.4 State of research; 2. Francisco Suárez (1548-1617) on universals; 2.1 Universals in Disputationes Metaphysicae and De Anima; 2.2 The metaphysics of universals: Formal and individual unity; 2.2.1 Nomenclature and historical point of departure

2.2.2 Scotus on the common nature according to Suárez's Disputationes Metaphysicae VI, s. 12.2.3 Suárez's "nominalization" of Scotus; 2.3.1 Suárez on the distinction between formal and universal unity; 2.3 Formal and universal unity; 2.3.2 Fonseca on universal unity and the aptitude to being in the many; 2.3.3 Suárez's dismissal of Fonseca's unity of precision; 2.3.4 Suárez on the aptitude to being in the many; 2.4 The metaphysical grades and their distinction; 2.4.1 Scotistic arguments for the distinction ex natura rei; 2.4.2 Suárez on the distinction between the metaphysical grades

2.5.1 Features of Suárez's cognitive psychology: Intellectual knowledge2.5 The epistemology of universals; 2.5.2 Intellectual cognition of material singulars; 2.5.3 Direct and comparative acts of the intellect; 2.5.4 The first/second intentions and the "quiddity" of the logical universal; 2.6 Hurtado's "confundism" and Suárez's moderate realism; 2.7 Summary; 3 João Poinsot (1589-1644) on universals; 3.1 Universals in Cursus philosophicus Thomisticus; 3.2 Different meanings of universale; 3.3 Universale materialiter sumptum; 3.3.1 Rejection of Platonism, Ultrarealism and Nominalism

3.3.2 Formal unity and negative community3.3.3 Formal unity and the aptitude to being in the many; 3.3.4 Distinctio virtualis intrinseca and the metaphysical grades; 3.3.5 Individuation, subsistence, existence and universals; 3.4 Universale metaphysicum; 3.4.1 Some features of Poinsot's cognitive psychology; 3.4.2 Knowledge of material singulars; 3.4.3 The metaphysical universal: Representational and cognitional aspect; 3.4.4 The extrinsic denomination and the first objective intention; 3.5 Universale logicum; 3.5.1 The "quiddity" of the logical universal: Esse in or dici de?

3.5.2 Formation of the logical universal3.6 Summary; 4. Bartolomeo Mastri da Meldola (1602-1673)/Bonaventura Belluto (1600-1676) on universals; 4.1 Universals in Cursus ad mentem Scoti; 4.2 Division of universale; 4.3.1 Anti-Nominalism and Anti-Platonism of Mastri's/Belluto's Doctrine; 4.3 Universale metaphysicum remotum; 4.3.2 Objective precision, formal distinction and the metaphysical grades; 4.3.3 The extramental character of the community of the common nature; 4.3.4 Community per indifferentiam, or per inexistentiam?

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