Francisco Suarez Quotes on God
Francisco Suárez’s Disputationes Metaphysicae (1597) and the late On the Laws and on God the Lawgiver (De Legibus, 1612) gave late scholastic Iberian philosophy its most ambitious systematic synthesis and shaped the early modern Catholic theological mainstream. The central project of the Disputationes is the comprehensive treatment of the metaphysical questions about God, being, and the categories outside the order of Aristotle’s Metaphysics, organized through the long sequence of disputed questions that supplied the principal Catholic philosophical-theological textbook for the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The framework, integrating Thomist, Scotist, and other late scholastic alternatives within the Suárezian synthesis, shaped Descartes’s early Jesuit philosophical formation, the early modern Lutheran-scholastic tradition through the Helmstedt theologians, and the broader transmission of late scholastic philosophy into early modern Europe.
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Attributed to Francisco Suarez:
“Political power is given to the community by God, not directly to any individual.”
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Attributed to Francisco Suarez:
“No human law binds in conscience unless it conforms to the eternal law.”
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“[The formal concept of entity] does not expressly refer to substance or accident , God or creature, but to all these things in the same way, that is, insofar as they are in some way similar to each other and agree in being .”
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“(About the Assumption of Mary ) It is not likely that assumption should be understood of the soul only , both because local assumption properly and strictly refers to the body, and because the souls of other saints also were taken up into heaven though the Church professes and celebrates no assumption for them, but only their passing over, their departure, their birthday.”
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“Francisco Suàrez, De Mysteriis Vitae Christi , Disp. 21, Sect. II, no 5. As reported in Joseph Duhr, SJ, The Glorious Assumption of the Mother of God , translated by John Manning Frances, SJ, Pç.J. Kenedy & Sons, New York, June 1950 (with nihil obstat by John M.A. Fearns, S.T.D., and imprimatur by Cardinal Francis Spellman given on September 18, 1950), p. 134 (of 153). OCLC 2212367.”
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“There is no doubt that God is the sufficient cause and, so to speak, the teacher of natural law , but it does not follow that he is the legislator.”
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