Suárez on the Unity of Material Substances

Many late medieval Aristotelians assumed that a natural substance has several substantial forms in addition to matter as really distinct parts. This assumption gave rise to a unity problem: why is a substance more than a conglomeration of all these parts? This paper discusses Francisco Suárez’s answ...

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Main Author: Perler, Dominik 1965- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill [2020]
In: Vivarium
Year: 2020, Volume: 58, Issue: 3, Pages: 143-167
Further subjects:B Hylomorphism
B Aristotelian metaphysics
B Suárez
B Matter
B Pluralism
B Form
B Fashion
B Substance
B Union
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