Francisco Suárez

Francisco Suárez

Francisco Suárez, SJ, (5 January 1548 – 25 September 1617) was a Spanish Jesuit priest, jurist, philosopher and theologian, one of the leading figures of the School of Salamanca movement. His work is considered a turning point in the history of Second Scholasticism, marking the transition from its Renaissance to its Baroque phases.

Quotes

• [...] qui expresse non dicit substantiam, neque accidens, neque Deum, nec creaturam, sed haec omnia per modum unius, scilicet quatenus sunt inter se aliquo modo similia et conveniunt in essendo.

• Disputationes Metaphysicae, Disputatio II, Sectio II, §8.
• [The formal concept of entity] does not expressly refer to substance or accident, God or creature, but to all these things in the same way, that is, insofar as they are in some way similar to each other and agree in being.
• Disputazioni metafisiche I-III, translation into Italian by Costantino Esposito, Bompiani, Milano 2007. Quoted in Costantino Esposito and Pasquale Porro, Filosofia, vol. 2, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2009, p. 109. ISBN 978-88-421-0913-6.

• (About the Assumption of Mary) It is not likely that assumption should be understood of the soul only, both because local assumption properly and strictly refers to the body, and because the souls of other saints also were taken up into heaven though the Church professes and celebrates no assumption for them, but only their passing over, their departure, their birthday.

• Francisco Suàrez, De Mysteriis Vitae Christi, Disp. 21, Sect. II, no 5. As reported in Joseph Duhr, SJ, The Glorious Assumption of the Mother of God, translated by John Manning Frances, SJ, Pç.J. Kenedy & Sons, New York, June 1950 (with nihil obstat by John M.A. Fearns, S.T.D., and imprimatur by Cardinal Francis Spellman given on September 18, 1950), p. 134 (of 153). OCLC 2212367.

Attributed

• There is no doubt that God is the sufficient cause and, so to speak, the teacher of natural law, but it does not follow that he is the legislator.

• AA.VV., Il libro della politica, translation into Italian by Sonia Sferzi, Gribaudo, 2018, p. 91. ISBN 9788858019429.