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Suarez was hold during Enlightment as the greatest metaphysician ever born. Even over Aquinas. Heidegger as well hold the opinion in his work Being and Time.
Funnily prior to XIX century Jesuit scholastics, mainly Iberians, had the consideration that today XIX century Germans have. You find citations of them in Descartes, Leibniz, Grotius, Wolff, Heerbord, Scheibler and basically all continental thinkers of the period.
From Claude Yvon Encyclopédie (1752)
>Suarez justly merited his reputation as the greatest scholastic who has ever written. [44] In his works one finds great penetration, great precision, profound knowledge: what a shame that this genius was a captive of the system adopted by the society. He wanted to make one of his own, because his mind asked only to create; but as he could not distance himself from Molinism, all he did, so to speak, was to give an ingenious turn to the old system.
Not to mention the massive contributions to botany and anthropology made by the Jesuits in America and Asia. Fully modern anthropology, based on categorization, philology, and reason, was born with José de Acosta in the 16th century.
He not only studied indigenous languages and their similarities, but also theorized that they came from Asia through some passage unknown in his time.
Suarez was hold during Enlightment as the greatest metaphysician ever born. Even over Aquinas. Heidegger as well hold the opinion in his work Being and Time.
Funnily prior to XIX century Jesuit scholastics, mainly Iberians, had the consideration that today XIX century Germans have. You find citations of them in Descartes, Leibniz, Grotius, Wolff, Heerbord, Scheibler and basically all continental thinkers of the period.
From Claude Yvon Encyclopédie (1752)
>Suarez justly merited his reputation as the greatest scholastic who has ever written. [44] In his works one finds great penetration, great precision, profound knowledge: what a shame that this genius was a captive of the system adopted by the society. He wanted to make one of his own, because his mind asked only to create; but as he could not distance himself from Molinism, all he did, so to speak, was to give an ingenious turn to the old system.
Not to mention the massive contributions to botany and anthropology made by the Jesuits in America and Asia. Fully modern anthropology, based on categorization, philology, and reason, was born with José de Acosta in the 16th century.
He not only studied indigenous languages and their similarities, but also theorized that they came from Asia through some passage unknown in his time.
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