Francisco Suárez (1548-1617) and Rodrigo Arriaga (1592-1667) on the state of innocence and community
- Recent scholarship on late-scholastic thought has stressed a Jesuit discontinuity from Thomism. While Aquinas’ Aristotelian thesis located the political sphere in the state of innocence, Jesuit thought on community formation is said to have referred to ‘fallen’ and ‘pure’ nature. In this piece, I trace one particular narrative: In the hypothetical, lasting state of innocence (if original sin had not occurred), Aquinas identified the political community, but not the institution of the sacraments. Two celebrated Jesuit scholastics, Francisco Suárez and Rodrigo Arriaga, challenged the latter claim and defended the naturalness of spiritual alongside temporal power. This effectively allowed them to connect ‘nature’ to ‘utility’ and ‘necessity’ without tying their claims to the supernatural teleology. To them, the state of innocence remained relevant for politics, albeit in a way that challenged the Thomist account.
| Author: | Christoph P. Haar |
|---|---|
| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-328989 |
| Parent Title (German): | LOEWE-Schwerpunkt "Außergerichtliche und gerichtliche Konfliktlösung" : Arbeitspapier = LOEWE research focus "Extrajudicial and judicial conflict resolution" : working paper ; 14 |
| Series (Serial Number): | LOEWE-Schwerpunkt "Außergerichtliche und gerichtliche Konfliktlösung" : Arbeitspapier = LOEWE research focus "Extrajudicial and judicial conflict resolution" : working paper (14) |
| Place of publication: | Frankfurt am Main |
| Document Type: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2014/01/28 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2014/01/28 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2014/03/04 |
| Tag: | Aquinas; Arriaga; Frühneuzeit; Naturzustand; Spätscholastik; Suárez; Thomismus Aquinas; Arriaga; Suárez; Thomism; late scholastic; state of innocence; state of nature |
| Page Number: | 18 |
| First Page: | 1 |
| Last Page: | 18 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 349091730 |
| Institutes: | Wissenschaftliche Zentren und koordinierte Programme / LOEWE-Schwerpunkt Außergerichtliche und gerichtliche Konfliktlösung |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 10 Philosophie / 100 Philosophie und Psychologie |
| 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften | |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
