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John Adam Scherzer's Axiomata Resoluta is a remarkably complete enumeration and defense of core principles of Scholastic Philosophy. It is somewhat like Aquinas's celebrated On Being and Essence but is broader in scope and arguably clearer in statement. Anyone who is somewhat puzzled by things Aquinas says about the relations of genera to species and of specific essences to individuals, as well as about the ways in which genera and species are both like and unlike form and matter, will profit from a careful reading of the Axiomata. The work brings out, in a particularly luminous way, the centrality of the notions of potency and act to all Scholastic Philosophy, and shows that the Schoolmen, though realists and essentialists, were well aware of the fact that humans can come to know something about the essences of things only in a round about and imperfect way. Leibniz scholars will be particularly interested in it since, at several points, it indicates the ways in which Scherzer's thought may have influenced Leibniz, Scherzer's pupil at Leipzig. These are discussed in the introduction to the translation and in several of its explanatory notes.
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Introduction Title I: On Being, Essence, and Non-being 38Title II: On Act and Potency 68 Title III: On Cause and Effect 91Title IV: On Matter 112Title V: On Form 130Title VI: On the Abstract and the Concrete 136Title VII: On the Final Cause 150Title VIII: On Action and Passion 165Title IX: On the Simple, the Composite, the Whole and the Parts 179Title X: On Genus and Species 191Title XI: On Difference 205Title XII: On Definition 211Title XIII: On Division and Distribution 217Title XIV: On Subject and Accident 220Title XV: On Comparisons 231Title XVI: On the Same and the Diverse 234Title XVII: On Opposites 238Title XVIII: On the True and the False 246Title XIX: On Propositions 249
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John Kronen is Professor of Philosophy at the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota. He is the author of a number of articles in the areas of Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Religion, and the co-author, with Eric Reitan, of God's Final Victory: A Comparative Philosophical Case for Universalism, London: Bloomsbury, 2013.Jeremiah Reedy is Emeritus Professor of Classics at Macalaster College in St. Paul, Minnesota. He specializes in textual criticism and Indo-European linguistics. He is the author of a number of articles on aspects of Greek Philosophy, and is the co-translator, with John Kronen of Suarez's On the Formal Cause of Substance: Metaphysical Disputation XV, Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2000, and of Selections from Suarez's De Anima, Munich: Philosophia Verlag, 2012.
