Victor M. Salas is an associate professor of Philosophy at Sacred Heart Major Seminary.

• Preface Acknowledgments Note on Textual Sources Introduction 1. The Life and Work of Francisco Suárez 2. The Theological Context and Purpose of the Suárezian Metaphysics 3. Interpretive Trends 4. The Thesis and Structure of the Present Work Chapter One: Metaphysics and Its Object 1. Being in Excess 2. Being in Restriction 2.1 Divine Science 2.2 Finite Being 3. Being as Transcendent 4. Conclusion Chapter Two: Being and Existence 1. Formal and Objective Concepts 2. The Unity of the Concept of Being 3. Existence and Quiddity 4. Being as a Participle and as a Noun 5. Immanence 6. Conclusion Chapter Three: The Transcendentality of Being 1. The Transcendental Explication of Being 1.1 Ratio Dubitandi: The Challenge to Transcendental Science 1.2 Suárez’s Transcendental Solution 2. Transcendentality and Mentalism? 2.1 The Accusation of Mentalism 2.2 The Intrinsic Entitative Character of the Transcendentals 2.2.1 Transcendental Unity 2.2.2 Transcendental Truth 2.2.3 Transcendental Goodness 3. Transcendentality and the Evisceration of Existence? 3.1 Transcendental Enumeration 3.2 Transcendental Reduction: Res 3.3 Transcendental Reduction: Aliquid 3.4 The Second Transcendental Perspective (Disjunctive Transcendentals) 4. Conclusion Chapter Four: Being and Possibility 1. The Imitation Model 2. Duns Scotus: Esse intelligibile and Possibility 3. Suárez on the Divine Cognition of the Possibles 4. Suárez on the Entitative Status of the Possibles 4.1 The “Essentialism” of Essences? 4.2 Potential Being (i.e., Objective Potency) 4.3 Futuribilia 5. Suárez on the Modal Character of Possibility 6. Conclusion Chapter Five: Being and Analogy 1. Equivocity 2. Univocity and the Unity of Being 3. Analogy 3.1 Proper Proportionality 3.2 Attribution 4. An Unequal, Inner Order 4.1 Inner Difference 4.2 Inner Unity 5. Conclusion Conclusion Bibliography Index Nominum Index Rerum