Contents
Acknowledgments
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
Index