Cognitive Psychology in Early Jesuit Scholasticism

Daniel Heider

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9783868385618
• eBook ISBN:
  9781351273985
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Philosophy History & Theory

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.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Psychology and Culture of the Intellect: Ignatius of Loyola and Antonio Possevino
• Francisco de Toledo, Francisco Suárez, Manuel de Góis 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 Modern Jesuit Psychology
• Light from Within - the Debate on the Glorified Body in Jesuit Theology: Francesco Suárez, Adam Tanner and Rodrigo Arriaga
• Species, entitates habituales, or intellects? Ontological Commitments in Early Jesuit Cognitive Psychology
• List of Contributors
• Name Index
• Subject Index