Francisco Suárez (5 January 1548, Granada, Spain -25 September 1617, Lisbon, Portugal) was a Spanish Jesuit priest, philosopher and theologian, generally regarded as having been the greatest scholastic after Thomas Aquinas.
At the age of sixteen Suarez entered the Society of Jesus at Salamanca, and he studied philosophy and theology there for five years from 1565 to 1570. It appears that he was not a promising student at first; indeed, he nearly ...
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Francisco Suárez (5 January 1548, Granada, Spain -25 September 1617, Lisbon, Portugal) was a Spanish Jesuit priest, philosopher and theologian, generally regarded as having been the greatest scholastic after Thomas Aquinas.
At the age of sixteen Suarez entered the Society of Jesus at Salamanca, and he studied philosophy and theology there for five years from 1565 to 1570. It appears that he was not a promising student at first; indeed, he nearly gave up his thoughts of study after twice failing the entrance exam. After passing the exam at the third attempt, however, things changed, and he completed his course of study in philosophy with distinction, going on to study theology, then to teach philosophy at Ávila and Segovia. He was ordained in 1572, and taught theology at Ávila and Segovia (1575), Valladolid (1576), Rome (1580–85), Alcalá (1585–92), Salamanca (1592–97), and Coimbra (1597–1616).
He wrote on a wide variety of subjects, producing a vast amount of work (his complete works...
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