Pedro Hurtado de Mendoza (1578 – November 10, 1641), also called Puente Hurtado de Mendoza, was a
Basque
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Places
* Basque Country (greater region), the homeland of the Basque people with parts in both Spain and France
* Basque Country (autonomous co ...
scholastic
philosopher
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and
theologian
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.
Philosophical work
Pedro Hurtado de Mendoza entered the Jesuit order in 1595 in
Salamanca
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. 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
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scholars and initiated the shift from more
realist positions of
Francisco Suárez
Francisco Suárez (; 5 January 1548 – 25 September 1617) was a Spanish Jesuit priest, philosopher and theologian, one of the leading figures of the School of Salamanca movement. His work is considered a turning point in the history of second ...
and
Gabriel Vásquez
Gabriel Vásquez (1549 or 1551 in Belmonte, Cuenca – 23 September 1604 in Alcalá de Henares), known as Bellomontanus, was a Spanish Jesuit theologian and scholastic philosopher. Vásquez was the foremost academic rival of his fellow Jesuit ...
towards
conceptualism
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,
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. His variously titled volume on scholastic philosophy (last ''Universa Philosophia'') is the earliest example of the genre of Baroque ''cursus'' typical of 17th- and 18th-century scholastic philosophy and theology.
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'', Antwerp, 1634.
See also
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Thomism
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In philosophy, Thomas's disputed ques ...
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School of Salamanca
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Second scholasticism
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Nominalism
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*
Society of Jesus
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*
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. ...
References
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External links
Pedro Hurtado de Mendozaat the ''Biblioteca Virtual Ignacio Larramendi'' (last actualization 13.01.2009.)
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1578 births
1651 deaths
17th-century Spanish philosophers
16th-century Spanish philosophers
17th-century Spanish Roman Catholic theologians
Spanish scholars
Academic staff of the University of Salamanca
Jesuit philosophers