On the formal cause of substance : metaphysical disputation XV / / Francis Suarez ; translated by John Kronen & Jeremiah Reedy ; introduction & explanatory notes by John Kronen.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Suarez, Francisco, 1548-1617.
• TeilnehmendeR: Kronen, John, 1961-; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Language: English; Latin
• Series: Mediaeval philosophical texts in translation ; no. 36
• Physical Description: 220 p. cm.

Table of Contents

Whether there are substantial forms in material things -- In what way substantial forms can come to be in and from matter -- Whether matter temporally precedes form in every eduction of the substantial form -- Whether, when form is educed from matter, it comes to be as such (per se) -- Concerning the proper nature of the substantial form and the nature of its causality -- Concerning the nature of formal causality -- What the effect of the formal cause is -- Whether the substantial form is a true cause of matter and matter is its effect -- Whether the dependence of matter on form is so great that without form matter could not be -- Conserved even through the divine power, nor form without matter -- Whether there is only one formal cause for one substance -- On the metaphysical form, the matter that corresponds to it, and the causality it exercises.