Metaphysical disputation I : on the nature of first philosophy or metaphysics / Francisco Suárez ; translated and annotated, with corrected Latin text, by Shane Duarte. [electronic resource]

"A parallel, Latin-English, edition of the first volume of Suárez's renowned treatise on metaphysics, with corrected Latin text and comprehensive annotations"--

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English and Latin.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Life and Works of Francisco Suárez -- 2. The Metaphysical Disputations (DM) and Its Place in the History of Metaphysics -- 3. The Genesis and Structure of the Metaphysical Disputations -- 4. Disputation I: The Nature of Metaphysics -- Remarks on the Latin Text and the English Translation -- Latin Abbreviations -- English Abbreviations -- Latin Text and English Translation -- Reason for, and Survey of, the Entire Work, to the Reader -- Proem to the Metaphysical Disputations

Metaphysical Disputation I: On the Nature of First Philosophy or Metaphysics -- Section 1: What the Object of Metaphysics Is -- Section 2: Whether Metaphysics Is Concerned with All Things according to Their Proper Natures -- Section 3: Whether Metaphysics Is Only One Science -- Section 4: How Many Functions Does This Science Have, What Is Its End, and What Is Its Utility? -- Section 5: Whether Metaphysics Is the Most Perfect Science and True Wisdom -- Section 6: Whether, among All the Sciences, Metaphysics Is Most of All Desired by the Human Being by Means of a Natural Appetite -- Bibliography