Suárez y quienes negaron el intelecto agente en el s. XVI

Abstract

Suárez and who denied the agent intellect in s. XVIIn this paper three theses on the agent intellect of various Renaissance writers are studied: a) those that deny the real distinction between one and another intellect: Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples, Francisco Suárez, and Gabriel Vázquez. b) those who admitted only a formal distinction: Philip Melanchthon, John Velcurio and Rudolph Goclenius. c) those who accepted only one nominal distinction: Gómez Pereira (the Brocense), John Eck and Augustin Faba.

Keywords

• agent intellect
• denial
• formalism
• nominalism