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Simone Guidi et Mário Santiago de Carvalho (éd.), Pedro da Fonseca. Humanism and Metaphysics, Turnhout, 2023.

Éditeur : Brepols
Collection : The Age of Descartes, 8
251 pages
ISBN : 978-2-503-59999-1
90 €

Also known as the “Portuguese Aristotle”, Pedro da Fonseca S. J. (1527-1599) was a prominent figure in early modern scholasticism and particularly in the history of the Society of Jesus. He took part in the writing of the Society's Ratio Studiorum and laid the groundwork for the publication of the famous Cursus Conimbricensis (1592-1606). Furthermore, he was the author of an influential handbook of logic and dialectics (the Institutionum Dialecticarum, 1564), in addition to being one of the most important and recognized commentators on Aristotle's Metaphysics in the sixteenth century (by his unfinished Commentaria, 1577-1612).

This volume is the first collection of essays in English devoted to Fonseca, his intellectual endeavour, and thought. The book brings together some of today's leading specialists in early modern scholasticism, Portuguese Aristotelianism, and the history of the Society of Jesus, in order to present a reliable portrait of Fonseca's institutional role, to reconstruct his thought on many important aspects of scholastic metaphysics, and to discuss the reception of his work in the early modern age.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Simone Guidi and Mário Santiago de Carvalho, Introduction. Pedro da Fonseca: A Sixteenth-Century Humanist and Metaphysician

Section I: Fonseca and Jesuit Pedagogy

Cristiano Casalini (Advanced Institute for Jesuit Studies, Boston College), Pedro da Fonseca: Humanism and the Jesuit Quest for a Philosophical Pedagogy

Mário Santiago de Carvalho (Universidade de Coimbra), Pedro da Fonseca's Presence in the 'Coimbra Jesuit Course'. A First Assessment

Section II: Disputing on Fonseca

João Rebalde (Universidade do Porto), Pedro da Fonseca's Doctrine on the Middle Knowledge

Daniel Heider (University of South Boemia), Pedro da Fonseca's Halfway Reductionism of Internal Senses in Light of Mastri and Belluto's Critique

Section III: Fonseca's Metaphysics in Context

Victor Salas (Sacred Heart Major Seminary), Pedro da Fonseca on the Scope and Unity of Metaphysics

António Manuel Martins (Universidade de Coimbra), Pedro da Fonseca on Categorical Relations

Giuseppe Capriati (Università del Salento), Pedro da Fonseca on Causality

Igor Agostini (Università del Salento), The Transcendental Properties of Ens and the Doctrine of Unum in Pedro da Fonseca. A perspicuous case of neglected Platonic origins of the Metaphysica generalis

Simone Guidi (CNR-ILIESI), Pedro da Fonseca on Substance, Subsistence, and Suppositum

Bibliography

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