On the formal cause of substance : metaphysical disputation XV /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Suárez, Francisco, 1548-1617
Other Authors: Kronen, John, 1961-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Milwaukee : Marquette University Press, [2000]
Series:Mediaeval philosophical texts in translation ; no. 36.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 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 education 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.