Pedro da Fonseca e a Recepção da Metafísica de Aristóteles na Segunda Metade do Séc. XVI

Abstract

It is claimed that in order to a better understanding of the reception of the text of the Metaphysics of Aristotle in the second half of the sixteenth Century one must carefully distinguish the commentaries to the whole work from texts that treat particular questions. Although much work is still to be done, the great commentary of Pedro da Fonseca appears as the major original commentary to the Metaphysics produced during that period. The metaphysical works of Fonseca and Suárez appear against this background as the most important trials of a metaphysical synthesis in the second half of the sixteenth Century.