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Francisco Suárez (5 January 1548 – 25 September 1617) was a Spanish Jesuit priest philosopher and theologian one of the leading figures of the School of Salamanca movement and generally regarded among the greatest scholastics after Thomas Aquinas. His work is considered a turning point in the history of second scholasticism marking the transition from its Renaissance to its Baroque phases.

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birth date
1548-01-05
birth place
Spain, Granada
death date
1617-09-25
death place
Lisbon
era
Modern philosophy
influenced
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, René Descartes, Martin Heidegger, Hugo Grotius, Christian Wolff (philosopher)
influenced by
Aristotle, Avicenna, Thomas Aquinas, Scholasticism, Duns Scotus
philosophicalSchool
Scholasticism

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