The metaphysics Impossibility of the malice´s Positivity according to Francis Suarez. An study of information sources: Augustine of Hippo, Dionysius the Areopagite, Thomas Aquinas

Abstract

Francis Suárez shows his metaphysical comprehension about the malice in the D.M. XI. In this particular case, he mainteins the impossibility of wickedness existence like a positive principle or like an attribute of ens. In such cases it is clearly stated the absence of a treatment reflexive on the metaphysical malice in the Greek Philosophy (XI, I, 2) and quite the contrary, the speculative presence of this topic in the Early Christianity and their legacy in Medieval and Scholastic Philosophy before to Parisian Condemnation in 1277 (XI, I, 13). Therefore, Suarez chart a way forward according to the statement of D.M. XI with three leading figures: Augustine of Hippo, Dionysius the Areopagite and Thomas Aquinas.