Jesuit Philosophy on the Eve of Modernity

Cristiano Casalini, PhD (2004), is associate professor at Boston College. He holds the chair in Jesuit pedagogy and educational history. His publications include Aristotle in Coimbra. The Cursus conimbricensis and the Education at the College of Arts (Routledge, 2017), and – with Claude Pavur, S.J. – Jesuit Pedagogy, 1540–1616: A Reader (Institute of Jesuit Sources, 2016).

Introduction

Cristiano Casalini


Part 1: The Landscape



1 Philosophy in Jesuit Schools and Universities

Paul F. Grendler

2 Uniformitas et soliditas doctrinae: History, Topics, and Impact of Jesuit Censorship in Philosophy (1550–99)

Christoph Sander



Part 2: The Disciplines



Section 2.1: Knowledge


3 From Probability to the Sublime(s): Early Modern Jesuit Rhetoric; a Anti-philosophy or an Alternative Path to a Modern Idea of “Truth”?

Anne Régent-Susini

4 Jesuit Logic

E. Jennifer Ashworth

5 Jesuit Psychology and the Theory of Knowledge

Daniel Heider



Section 2.2: Nature and Theological Concerns

6 Early Jesuit Philosophers on the Nature of Space

Paul Richard Blum

7 “Accedit Theologicum argumentum”: Discussing Transubstantiation in Commenting Aristotle; Commentarius Collegii Conimbricensis on Aristotle’s De generatione

Stefano Caroti



Section 2.3: Action

8 A Juridicized Language for the Salvation of Souls: Jesuit Ethical Thought

Christoph P. Haar

9 Political Thought

Erik De Bom



Part 3: Authors



Section 3.1: The Roman College

10 Francisco de Toledo: Setting a Standard for Jesuit Philosophy

Anna Tropia

11 Benet Perera: the Epistemological Question at the Heart of Early Jesuit Philosophy

Marco Lamanna



Section 3.2: Madrid

12 Luis de Molina: The Metaphysics of Freedom

Alexander Aichele



Section 3.3: Coimbra


13 Pedro da Fonseca’s Unfinished Metaphysics: the First Systematic Jesuit Metaphysics before Suárez

António Manuel Martins

14 Manuel de Góis: the Coimbra Course and the Definition of an Early Jesuit Philosophy

Mário S. de Carvalho

15 Francisco Suárez: a “New” Thomistic Realism

Benjamin Hill



Part 4: Reverberations

16 Descartes and the Jesuits

Alfredo Gatto

17 John Locke and the Jesuits on Law and Politics

Elliot Rossiter



Index