On Efficient Causality

Metaphysical Disputations 17, 18, and 19

By: Francisco Suarez, Alfred J. Freddoso (Translator)

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The Spanish Jesuit Francisco Suarez (1548-1617) was an eminent philosopher and theologian whose Disputationes Metaphysicae was first published in Spain in 1597 and was widely studied throughout Europe during the seventeenth century. The Disputationes Metaphysicae had a great influence on the development of early modern philosophy and on such well-known figures as Descartes and Leibniz. This is the first time that Disputations 17, 18, and 19 have been translated into English.

The Metaphysical Disputations provide an excellent philosophical introduction to the medieval Aristotelian discussion of efficient causality. The work constitutes a synthesis of monumental proportions: problematic issues are lucidly delineated and the various arguments are laid out in depth. Disputations 17, 18, and 19 deal explicitly with such issues as the nature of causality, the types of efficient causes, the prerequisites for causal action, causal contingency, human free choice, and chance.

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Introduction
Disputation 17: On the Efficient Cause in General	p. 3
What an Efficient Cause Is	p. 5
The Types of Efficient Causes	p. 11
Disputation 18: On the Proximate Efficient Cause and on Its Causality and on All the Things that It Requires in Order to Cause	p. 35
Whether Created Things Really Effect Anything	p. 37
The Principle by Which One Created Substance Produces Another	p. 51
The Principle by Which Created Substances Produce Accidents	p. 91
Which Accidents Are Capable of Being Principles of Acting	p. 111
Whether Accidents Effect Other Accidents by Themselves without the Concurrence of Substantial Forms	p. 121
Whether an Accident Is Merely an Instrument in the Production of Another Accident	p. 127
Whether, in Order to Act, an Efficient Cause Must Be Distinct in Reality from the Recipient of the Action	p. 131
Whether, in Order to Act, an Efficient Cause Must Be Conjoined with or Close to the Thing Acted Upon	p. 178
Whether, in Order to Act, an Efficient Cause Requires a Patient That Is Dissimilar to It, and in What Proportion	p. 222
Whether Action Is the Proper Notion of Causing for an Efficient Cause - That Is, Its Causality	p. 249
Whether an Efficient Cause Corrupts or Destroys a Thing by Effecting Something, and How	p. 259
Disputation 19: On Causes that Act Necessarily and Causes That Act Freely or Contingently; Also, on Fate, Fortune, and Chance	p. 269
Whether among Created Efficient Causes There Are Any That Act Necessarily, and What Sort of Necessity This Is	p. 270
Whether among Efficient Causes There Are Some That Operate without Necessity and with Freedom	p. 283
Whether There Could Be Any Freely Acting Efficient Cause If the First Cause Operated by Necessity; and, in General, Whether the Freedom of an Action Requires Freedom in All the Causes That Influence It, or Whether Freedom in One of Them Is Sufficient	p. 301
How Freedom or Contingency Abides in the Action of a Secondary Cause Despite the Concurrence of the First Cause and, Consequently, in What Sense It Is True That a Cause Is Free Which, Given That Everything Required for Acting Has Been Posited, Is Able to Act and Able Not to Act	p. 314
Which Faculty the Freedom of a Created Cause Formally Resides In	p. 327
How a Free Cause Is Determined by the Judgment of Reason	p. 346
What the Source or Origin of a Defect in a Free Cause Is	p. 358
Which Acts a Free Cause Has Indifference with Respect to	p. 365
Whether a Cause's Freedom Exists While It Is Actually Operating	p. 379
Whether Contingency in the Effects of the Universe Arises from the Freedom of the Efficient Causes, or Whether It Could Exist in the Absence of Such Freedom	p. 384
Whether There Is Any Good Reason for Numbering Fate among the Efficient Causes in the Universe	p. 392
Whether Chance and Fortune Should Be Numbered among the Efficient Causes	p. 401
Bibliography	p. 409
Index of Names and Works	p. 413
Index of Subjects	p. 417
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