Efficient Cause as Paradigm? From Suárez to Clauberg
This paper critiques a narrative concerning causality in later scholasticism due to, among others, Des Chene (1996), Carraud (2002), Schmaltz (2008), Schmid (2010), and Pasnau (2011). On this account, internal developments in the scholastic tradition culminating in Suárez lead to the efficient cause...
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| description | This paper critiques a narrative concerning causality in later scholasticism due to, among others, Des Chene (1996), Carraud (2002), Schmaltz (2008), Schmid (2010), and Pasnau (2011). On this account, internal developments in the scholastic tradition culminating in Suárez lead to the efficient cause being regarded as the paradigmatic kind of cause, anticipating a view explicitly held by the Cartesians. Focusing on Suárez and his scholastic reception, I defend the following claims: a) Suárez’s definition of cause does not privilege efficient causation; b) Suárez’s readers, from Timpler to Arriaga, did not interpret him as privileging efficient causation; c) it is only much later, in Clauberg, that we find a narrowing of the meaning of causation to efficient causal action; but d) this shift is better explained by Clauberg’s rejection of substance hylomorphism in favor of Descartes’s doctrine of substance, rather than by any troubles within the Aristotelian causal framework. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-60f24e2f99ee4a4d864f99a6d50a8d552025-01-31T16:08:15ZengAperioJournal of Modern Philosophy2644-06522021-12-013010.25894/jmp.1997Efficient Cause as Paradigm? From Suárez to ClaubergNabeel Hamid0Concordia UniversityThis paper critiques a narrative concerning causality in later scholasticism due to, among others, Des Chene (1996), Carraud (2002), Schmaltz (2008), Schmid (2010), and Pasnau (2011). On this account, internal developments in the scholastic tradition culminating in Suárez lead to the efficient cause being regarded as the paradigmatic kind of cause, anticipating a view explicitly held by the Cartesians. Focusing on Suárez and his scholastic reception, I defend the following claims: a) Suárez’s definition of cause does not privilege efficient causation; b) Suárez’s readers, from Timpler to Arriaga, did not interpret him as privileging efficient causation; c) it is only much later, in Clauberg, that we find a narrowing of the meaning of causation to efficient causal action; but d) this shift is better explained by Clauberg’s rejection of substance hylomorphism in favor of Descartes’s doctrine of substance, rather than by any troubles within the Aristotelian causal framework.https://jmphil.org/article/id/1997/early modern scholasticismSuárezcausationefficient causeCartesian scholasticism |
| spellingShingle | Nabeel Hamid Efficient Cause as Paradigm? From Suárez to Clauberg Journal of Modern Philosophy early modern scholasticism Suárez causation efficient cause Cartesian scholasticism |
| title | Efficient Cause as Paradigm? From Suárez to Clauberg |
| title_full | Efficient Cause as Paradigm? From Suárez to Clauberg |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Efficient Cause as Paradigm? From Suárez to Clauberg |
| title_short | Efficient Cause as Paradigm? From Suárez to Clauberg |
| title_sort | efficient cause as paradigm from suarez to clauberg |
| topic | early modern scholasticism Suárez causation efficient cause Cartesian scholasticism |
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