Jesuit Philosophy on the Eve of Modernity

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-39439-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 20, 466 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 821 g

Reihe: Jesuit Studies

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 identify and examine the limits of the “distinctiveness” of Jesuit philosophers during an age of dramatic turbulence in Western thought. The eighteen contributions by some of the leading specialists in various fields are divided into four sections, which guide the reader through cultural milieus, thematic issues, and intellectual biographies to show the impact of Jesuit philosophy on early modern thought.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Casalini, Cristiano

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Christliche Orden und Vereinigungen, Ordensgeschichte, Mönchstum
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Neuzeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Katholizismus, Römisch-Katholische Kirche
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Cristiano Casalini

Part 1: The Landscape

1 Philosophy in Jesuit Schools and Universities

Paul F. Grendler

2 Uniformitas et soliditas doctrinae: History, Topics, and Impact of Jesuit Censorship in Philosophy (1550–99)

Christoph Sander

Part 2: The Disciplines

Section 2.1: Knowledge

3 From Probability to the Sublime(s): Early Modern Jesuit Rhetoric; a Anti-philosophy or an Alternative Path to a Modern Idea of “Truth”?

Anne Régent-Susini

4 Jesuit Logic

E. Jennifer Ashworth

5 Jesuit Psychology and the Theory of Knowledge

Daniel Heider

Section 2.2: Nature and Theological Concerns

6 Early Jesuit Philosophers on the Nature of Space

Paul Richard Blum

7 “Accedit Theologicum argumentum”: Discussing Transubstantiation in Commenting Aristotle; Commentarius Collegii Conimbricensis on Aristotle’s De generatione

Stefano Caroti

Section 2.3: Action

8 A Juridicized Language for the Salvation of Souls: Jesuit Ethical Thought

Christoph P. Haar

9 Political Thought

Erik De Bom

Part 3: Authors

Section 3.1: The Roman College

10 Francisco de Toledo: Setting a Standard for Jesuit Philosophy

Anna Tropia

11 Benet Perera: the Epistemological Question at the Heart of Early Jesuit Philosophy

Marco Lamanna

Section 3.2: Madrid

12 Luis de Molina: The Metaphysics of Freedom

Alexander Aichele

Section 3.3: Coimbra

13 Pedro da Fonseca’s Unfinished Metaphysics: the First Systematic Jesuit Metaphysics before Suárez

António Manuel Martins

14 Manuel de Góis: the Coimbra Course and the Definition of an Early Jesuit Philosophy

Mário S. de Carvalho

15 Francisco Suárez: a “New” Thomistic Realism

Benjamin Hill

Part 4: Reverberations

16 Descartes and the Jesuits

Alfredo Gatto

17 John Locke and the Jesuits on Law and Politics

Elliot Rossiter

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Cristiano Casalini, PhD (2004), is associate professor at Boston College. He holds the chair in Jesuit pedagogy and educational history. His publications include Aristotle in Coimbra. The Cursus conimbricensis and the Education at the College of Arts (Routledge, 2017), and – with Claude Pavur, S.J. – Jesuit Pedagogy, 1540–1616: A Reader (Institute of Jesuit Sources, 2016).