On the formal cause of substance [electronic resource] : metaphysical disputation XV / Francis Suarez ; translated by John Kronen & Jeremiah Reedy ; introduction & explanatory notes by John Kronen.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Latin Series: Mediaeval philosophical texts in translation ; no. 36Publication details: Milwaukee, Wis. : Marquette University Press, c2000.Description: 220 p. cmUniform titles:
  • De causa formali substantiali. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 111/.1 21
LOC classification:
  • B785.S823 D3613 2000eb
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Whether there are substantial forms in material things -- In what way substantial forms can come to be in and from matter -- Whether matter temporally precedes form in every eduction of the substantial form -- Whether, when form is educed from matter, it comes to be as such (per se) -- Concerning the proper nature of the substantial form and the nature of its causality -- Concerning the nature of formal causality -- What the effect of the formal cause is -- Whether the substantial form is a true cause of matter and matter is its effect -- Whether the dependence of matter on form is so great that without form matter could not be -- Conserved even through the divine power, nor form without matter -- Whether there is only one formal cause for one substance -- On the metaphysical form, the matter that corresponds to it, and the causality it exercises.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-201) and indexes.

Whether there are substantial forms in material things -- In what way substantial forms can come to be in and from matter -- Whether matter temporally precedes form in every eduction of the substantial form -- Whether, when form is educed from matter, it comes to be as such (per se) -- Concerning the proper nature of the substantial form and the nature of its causality -- Concerning the nature of formal causality -- What the effect of the formal cause is -- Whether the substantial form is a true cause of matter and matter is its effect -- Whether the dependence of matter on form is so great that without form matter could not be -- Conserved even through the divine power, nor form without matter -- Whether there is only one formal cause for one substance -- On the metaphysical form, the matter that corresponds to it, and the causality it exercises.

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