Pedro Hurtado de Mendoza (1578,
Balmaseda – November 10, 1641,
Madrid
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) was a
Basque
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scholastic
philosopher and
theologian
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.
Philosophical work
He was a teacher of theology and philosophy in
Valladolid
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and he occupied a chair at the
University of Salamanca
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.
Hurtado belonged to the third generation of
Jesuit scholars and initiated the shift from more
realist positions of
Francisco Suárez and
Gabriel Vásquez towards
conceptualism
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,
[Daniel Heider, ''Universals in Second Scholasticism'', John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014, p. 18.] characteristic of that generation. His conceptualist tendencies were further developed by his pupils
Rodrigo de Arriaga
Rodrigo de Arriaga (17 January 1592 – 7 June 1667) was a Spanish philosopher, theologian and Jesuit. He is known as one of the foremost Spanish Jesuits of his day and as a leading representative of post- Suárezian baroque Jesuit nominalism.
...
and
Francisco Oviedo.
Works
* ''Disputationes a Summulis ad Metaphysicam'' (Valladolid 1615) reprinted as: ''Disputationes ad universam philosophiam ''(Lyon 1617) and as: ''Universa philosophia'' (Lyon 1624).
* ''Disputationes scholasticae et morales de tribus virtutibus theologicis. De fide volumen secundum'', Salamanca, 1631.
* ''Disputationes scholasticae et morales de spe et charitate, volumen secundum'', Salamanca, 1631.
* ''Disputationes de Deo homine, sive de Incarnatione Filii Dei'', Antwerpen, 1634.
See also
*
Thomism
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*
School of Salamanca
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References
Further reading
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* Daniel D. Novotný, “The Historical Non-Significance of Suárez’s Theory of Beings of Reason: A Lesson From Hurtado”. In ''Suárez's Metaphysics in its Systematic and Historical Context'', ed. Lukáš Novák, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2014, 183-207.
* Jacob Schmutz, "Hurtado et son double. La querelle des images mentales dans la scolastique moderne", dans: Lambros Couloubaritsis, Antonino Mazzù (eds.), ''Questions sur l'intentionnalité'', Bruxelles: Ousia, 2007, 157-232.
External links
Pedro Hurtado de Mendozaat the ''Biblioteca Virtual Ignacio Larramendi'' (last actualization 13.01.2009.)
Scholasticonby Jacob Schmutz
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1578 births
1651 deaths
Spanish philosophers
17th-century philosophers
17th-century Spanish Roman Catholic theologians
Spanish scholars
University of Salamanca faculty
Jesuit philosophers