Belarmino Professor

FRANCISCO SUREZ (1548-1617) " The happiness does not consist of the many owned things but of the way to enjoy them, although they are menos." Francisco Surez The VOICE OF MOST MODERN OF the Surez SCHOLASTICS was most modern of the scholastics and most scholastic of the modern ones. Heir of all the School, knew to take it more to his point of advanced maturity; after him soon the decay of the ancestral millenarian tradition will take place. But the projection of the doctor eximius was intense and lasting. In the average catholics, it had numerous disciples and it was continued by a Pleiad of teachers. For the protestants, it was for a long time a model. The great philosopher Andalusian is present even in the new philosophy of the age barroca and after the Illustration. Its thought occupies an important place in the Spanish thought and constitutes a capital turn in the evolution of the world-wide speculation. Francisco Surez was born in Granada the 5 from January from 1548.

He was in a moment tonsurado; student in Medina of the Field and later Salamanca, where it followed the courses of Mancio de Corpus Christi, Juan de Guevara and Enrique Henrquez, in 1564 it entered the Company of Jesus where it received the lessons of Andres Martinez. Shortly after he was professor in Segovia, Salamanca, Valladolid, and Alcala. Call to Rome and 1580, remained there during five years, very together with Belarmino and the Pope. From return to Spain, it taught in Alcala, where his first books tolerated difficulties to him on the part of the Dominican censors. In 1593, one returned to Salamanca, where it taught with an increasing brilliance: in the school Jesuit of the Aspirantado it would write, in 1597, his masterpiece, the Disputaciones metaphysicae. There in this same year, named professor of the chair of Cousin of Coimbra at the request of Felipe II, implanted during long time the salmantino thought until 1615 that obtained its retirement, marching to Lisbon, two years before his death, happened in this city the 25 of September of 1617.