Número 21 - 2001
Articles

Material Substance in Suárez

Adolfo García de la Sienra
Universidad Veracruzana

Published 2013-11-28

How to Cite

Sienra, A. G. de la. (2013). Material Substance in Suárez. Tópicos, Revista De Filosofía, 21(1), 9–26. https://doi.org/10.21555/top.v21i1.314

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Abstract

The transformations that take place in the realm of high-energy physics, as well as the fact that reality appears to the distinct sciences as a stockpile of layers of laws and properties, seem to support an Aristotelian view of matter. This makes both interesting and relevant a fresh reconsideration of one of the most systematic formulations of such a view: that of Francis Suarez in his Metaphysical Disputations. This formulation is introduced here in a more contemporary language and from the vantage point of three centuries of modern physics.

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