Dipartimento di Filosofia

Research Project: Starting from a new configuration of the concept of ens, and through an analysis of Suárez's work, the research focuses on the core points of the relationship between Ontology, Anthropology, and Political Philosophy. It is organized according to three main topics: efficient cause, free will, and law. By giving special attention to the sources of Suárez (e.g. Thomas Aquinas, Scotus, Ockham, Banez, Molina), it also considers the fundamental philosophical issues debated throughout the Council of Trent, which were not only related to the status of free will but also typical of the philosophical thought of both XVI th and XVII th centuries. Moreover, while being developed according to a fundamentally theoretical perspective, it also pays attention to the genesis of the status of obligatio, potentia Dei, and lex aeterna as “opposed” to lex naturalis and lex civilis. Areas of interest/Research interests: Theoretical Philosophy; Metaphysics; History of Philosophy (Aristotelism, scholars and second scholars, Early Modern Age); Political Philosophy; History of Science.