Jesuit philosophy on the eve of modernity / / edited by Cristiano Casalini.

Jesuit Philosophy on the Eve of Modernity , edited by Cristiano Casalini, is the first comprehensive volume to trace the origins and development of Jesuit philosophy during the first century of the Society of Jesus (1540–c.1640). Filling a gap in the history of philosophy, the volume seeks to identi...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2019]
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Jesuit Studies 20.
Physical Description:1 online resource (463 pages).
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Introduction / Cristiano Casalini
  • The Landscape
  • Philosophy in Jesuit Schools and Universities / Paul F. Grendler
  • Uniformitas et soliditas doctrinae: History, Topics, and Impact of Jesuit Censorship in Philosophy (1550–99) / Christoph Sander
  • The Disciplines
  • Knowledge
  • From Probability to the Sublime(s): Early Modern Jesuit Rhetoric; an Anti-philosophy or an Alternative Path to a Modern Idea of “Truth”? / Anne Régent-Susini
  • Jesuit Logic / E. Jennifer Ashworth
  • Jesuit Psychology and the Theory of Knowledge / Daniel Heider
  • Nature and Theological Concerns
  • Early Jesuit Philosophers on the Nature of Space / Paul Richard Blum
  • “Accedit Theologicum argumentum”: Discussing Transubstantiation in Commenting Aristotle; Commentarius Collegii Conimbricensis on Aristotle’s De generatione / Stefano Caroti
  • Action
  • A Juridicized Language for the Salvation of Souls: Jesuit Ethics / Christoph P. Haar
  • Political Thought / Erik De Bom
  • Authors
  • The Roman College
  • Francisco de Toledo: Setting a Standard for Jesuit Philosophy / Anna Tropia
  • Benet Perera: the Epistemological Question at the Heart of Early Jesuit Philosophy / Marco Lamanna
  • Madrid
  • Luis de Molina: The Metaphysics of Freedom / Alexander Aichele
  • Coimbra
  • Pedro da Fonseca’s Unfinished Metaphysics: the First Systematic Jesuit Metaphysics before Suárez / António Manuel Martins
  • Manuel de Góis: The Coimbra Course and the Definition of an Early Jesuit Philosophy / Mário S. de Carvalho
  • Francisco Suárez: A “New” Thomistic Realism / Benjamin Hill
  • Reverberations
  • Descartes and the Jesuits / Alfredo Gatto
  • John Locke and the Jesuits on Law and Politics / Elliot Rossiter
  • Back Matter
  • Index.