2023.05.30 輔仁大學哲學系學術演講--Dominik Perler教授：Suárez’s Compositional Account of Substance

【講題】 Suárez’s Compositional Account of Substance

                                     蘇亞雷茲對實體的複合解釋

【主講】Dominik Perler(德國柏林洪堡大學中世紀哲學講座教授)

【主持】林約光(輔仁大學哲學系助理教授)

【時間】2023/05/30(二)下午13:30-15:30

【地點】輔仁大學文華樓LI400

【地址】新北市新莊區中正路510號 (捷運輔大站1號出口)

【補助及協辦單位】國家科學及技術委員會、政治大學

【舉辦方式】實體會議

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◆主講者介紹：https://www.philosophie.hu-berlin.de/en/sections/theorie/mitarbeiter/perler 

◆演講簡介

According to Francisco Suárez, a substance is literally composed of many entities and therefore displays a complex internal structure. The lecture examines this compositional account of substance, arguing that he radically transformed hylomorphism. It first looks at the thin substance, which consists of form and matter as the most basic entities. It pays particular attention to Suárez's thesis that these two entities are really distinct from each other and therefore in need of a special relation that connects them. The lecture then analyzes the thick substance, which has additional powers and properties. All of them are distinct entities that somehow enrich the form-matter compound. In providing this compositional account, Suárez presents metaphysics as a way of doing reverse engineering: we do not know what a substance is unless we decompose it in our thoughts and reconstruct it.