Suárez, Francisco
Suárez, Francisco
biographical name(born Jan. 5, 1548, Granada, Spain—died Sept. 25, 1617, Lisbon) Spanish theologian and philosopher. In his Metaphysical Disputations (1597), he drew on the works of Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, and Luis de Molina (1535–1600) to discuss the free will problem and other metaphysical topics. He is widely considered the greatest Scholastic philosopher after Aquinas (see Scholasticism) and the major Jesuit theologian. His departures from Aquinas's positions have been considered significant enough to warrant the separate designation of his system as Suárezianism.
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