Selections from Three Works

By Francisco SuárezEdited and with an Introduction by Thomas Pink ISBN: 9780865975170 A Treatise on Laws and God the LawgiverA Defence of the Catholic and Apostolic FaithA Work on the Three Theological Virtues: Faith, Hope, and Charity Francisco Suárez (1548–1617) was the greatest metaphysician and moral theorist of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century scholasticism. Suárez is of particular importance as a theorist of natural law and of rights, for his work combines expertise in moral theory with a mastery of civil and ecclesiastical jurisprudence and a sophisticated theory of the human person. The bulk of the selections in this volume are from A Treatise on Laws and God the Lawgiver (1612), “one of the major works of scholastic moral and legal theory,” writes volume editor Thomas Pink. In the Treatise, working within the framework originally elaborated by Thomas Aquinas, Suárez presented a systematic account of human moral activity in all its dimensions, synthesizing the entire scholas