Jesuit Philosophy on the Eve of Modernity presents eighteen essays on, according to Brill, “the origins and development of Jesuit philosophy during the first century of the Society of Jesus.” The publisher continues to note that the scholars contributing to this volume seek “to identify and examine the limits of the ‘distinctiveness’ of Jesuit philosophers during an age of dramatic turbulence in Western thought.”
The volume is edited by Cristiano Casalini — research scholar at the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies and profess of Jesuit pedagogy at the Lynch School of Education at Boston College. An interview with Casalini is available online at Youtube. Jesuit Philosophy on the Eve of Modernity is published as part of Brill’s Jesuit Studies book series.
The table of contents appears below. Record for this book and for each chapter are available in the Jesuit Online Bibliography.
Introduction
By: Cristiano Casalini
The Landscape
Philosophy in Jesuit Schools and Universities
By: Paul F. Grendler
Uniformitas et soliditas doctrinae: History, Topics, and Impact of Jesuit Censorship in Philosophy (1550–99)
By: 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”?
By: Anne Régent-Susini
Jesuit Logic
By: E. Jennifer Ashworth
Jesuit Psychology and the Theory of Knowledge
By: Daniel Heider
Nature and Theological Concerns
Early Jesuit Philosophers on the Nature of Space
By: Paul Richard Blum
“Accedit Theologicum argumentum”: Discussing Transubstantiation in Commenting Aristotle; Commentarius Collegii Conimbricensis on Aristotle’s De generatione
By: Stefano Caroti
Action
A Juridicized Language for the Salvation of Souls: Jesuit Ethics
By: Christoph P. Haar
Political Thought
By: Erik De Bom
Authors
The Roman College
Francisco de Toledo: Setting a Standard for Jesuit Philosophy
By: Anna Tropia
Benet Perera: the Epistemological Question at the Heart of Early Jesuit Philosophy
By: Marco Lamanna
Madrid
Luis de Molina: The Metaphysics of Freedom
By: Alexander Aichele
Coimbra
Pedro da Fonseca’s Unfinished Metaphysics: the First Systematic Jesuit Metaphysics before Suárez
By: António Manuel Martins
Manuel de Góis: The Coimbra Course and the Definition of an Early Jesuit Philosophy
By: Mário S. de Carvalho
Francisco Suárez: A “New” Thomistic Realism
By: Benjamin Hill
Reverberations
Descartes and the Jesuits
By: Alfredo Gatto
John Locke and the Jesuits on Law and Politics
By: Elliot Rossiter