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Cognitive Psychology in Early Jesuit Scholasticism

By Daniel Heider Copyright 2016

    Jesuit scholastic philosophy of Francisco Suarez (1548–1617) is known to have exerted significant influence over scholastic theology in the 17th and 18th centuries. However, the historic philosophical and theological context from which his ideas emerged, marked by his Jesuit contemporaries, is not well known. In the field of philosophical cognitive psychology, especially in the commentaries on Aristotle's On the Soul, this book aims to correct this knowledge gap. Each chapter provides evidence of the theological motivation and theological horizon of the Jesuit cognitive psychology of the last decades of the 16th century and the first decades of the 17th century.

    Introduction, Psychology and Culture of the Intellect: Ignatius of Loyola and Antonio Possevino, Francisco de Toledo, Francisco Suarez, Manuel de Gois and Antonio Rubio on the Activity and Passivity of the External Senses, Beyond Psychology - The Philosophical Horizon of the Coimbra Commentary on Aristotle’s ‘De Anima’ (1598), The Discussion on the Separated Soul in Early Modem Jesuit Psychology, Light from Within - the Debate on the Glorified Body in Jesuit Theology: Francesco Suarez, Adam Tanner and Rodrigo Arriaga, Species, entitates habituates, or intellectio? Ontological Commitments in Early Jesuit Cognitive Psychology, List of Contributors, Name Index, Subject Index

    Biography

    Daniel Heider