Francisco Suárez (1548–1617): Jesuits and the Complexities of Modernity (2018)

The fourth International Symposium on Jesuit Studies was co-organized in Seville in 2018 by the Departamento de Humanidades y Filosofía at Universidad Loyola Andalucía and the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College. Its theme considered studied the work of Francisco Suárez and other Jesuits of his time in the context of diverse traditions that came together in Europe between the late Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and early modernity.

Francisco Suárez (1548–1617): Jesuits and the Complexities of Modernity — with revised and peer-reviewed essays based on presentations at the symposium — is available through Brill Publishers. The essays are not available in open access. The contents include:

 

Introducción

— Juan Antonio Senent-De Frutos

 

Metaphysics
Francisco Suárez’s Metaphysics of Cognitive Acts

— Daniel Heider

Suárez on Substantial Forms: a Heroic Last Stand?

— Sydney Penner

Intrinsic Being or the Formal Structures of Thought? The Grounding of Possibility in Francisco Suárez’s Metaphysics

— Matthew Z. Vale

En contra del esencialismo: Ente real y existencia en Suárez

— Ángel Poncela González

 

Religion, Law, Society
Francisco Suárez: Religious Freedom and International Law

— Robert Fastiggi

Francisco Suárez on Religion and Religious Pluralism

— Aaron Pidel S.J.

Encarnación y subsistencia en las Disputaciones metafísicas de Francisco Suárez: Algunas cuestiones en torno a los fundamentos de la modernidad

— Julio Söchting

Settling Law: Francisco Suárez’s Theory of Custom for Contemporary Contexts

— Elisabeth Rain Kincaid

 

Political Theories
Francisco Suárez y la posibilidad de intervención pública en asuntos sociales

— Luis-Carlos Amezúa Amezúa

Beyond Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism: Finding Resources in Francisco Suárez’s Political Theology

— Liam de los Reyes

Entrega del poder al gobernante y esclavitud voluntaria de la comunidad política en Francisco Suárez: Una interpretación desde los límites fácticos al poder

— Pablo Font Oporto

Francisco Suárez y la propaganda político-apocalíptica en la Inglaterra de Jacobo i: El libro V de la Defensio fidei; El Anticristo

— Pilar Pena Búa

Francisco Suárez: Absolutist or Constitutionalist?

— Szilárd Tattay

 

Psychology
El sí mismo desde Suárez y el valor moral de los hábitos

— Giannina Burlando

Separated Soul and Its Nature: Francisco Suárez in the Scholastic Debate

— Simone Guidi

Doctrinal Divergences on the Nature of Human Composite in Two Commentaries on Aristotle’s De anima (Anonymous, Cod. 2399 bguc and Francisco Suárez): New Material on the Jesuit School of Coimbra and the Cursus Conimbricensis

— Paula Oliveira e Silva

— João Rebalde

Suárez, Maquiavelo y una moderna noción de prudencia: Derivaciones políticas en la obra de Diego de Saavedra Fajardo

— Nicolás Vivalda

 

Legacy
Francisco Suárez and John Locke on Rights and Alienability: a Critical Conversation

— Catherine Sims Kuiper

La imposible teología política: Gobierno y justicia en Francisco Suárez

— Lorenzo Rustighi