Biography:Pedro Hurtado de Mendoza

Short description: Spanish philosopher and theologian (1578–1641)

The Reverend Pedro Hurtado de Mendoza
Born	1578 Balmaseda, Spanish Empire
Died	10 November 1641(1641-11-10) (aged 62–63) Madrid, Spanish Empire
Education	University of Salamanca
Era	17th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy Spanish philosophy
School	Scholasticism Conceptualism
Institutions	University of Valladolid University of Salamanca
Main interests	Metaphysics, logic, ontology

Pedro Hurtado de Mendoza (1578, Balmaseda – November 10, 1641, Madrid), also called Puente Hurtado de Mendoza, was a Basque scholastic philosopher and theologian.

Philosophical work

Pedro Hurtado de Mendoza entered the Jesuit order in 1595 in Salamanca. He was a teacher of theology and philosophy in Valladolid and he occupied a chair at the University of Salamanca.

Hurtado belonged to the third generation of Jesuit scholars and initiated the shift from more realist positions of Francisco Suárez and Gabriel Vásquez towards conceptualism, characteristic of that generation. His conceptualist tendencies were further developed by his pupils Rodrigo de Arriaga and Francisco Oviedo. His variously titled volume on scholastic philosophy (last Universa Philosophia) is the earliest example of the genre of Baroque cursus typical of 17th- and 18th-century scholastic philosophy and theology.

Works

• Disputationes a Summulis ad Metaphysicam (Valladolid 1615) reprinted as: Disputationes ad universam philosophiam (Lyon 1617) and as: Universa philosophia (Lyon 1624).
• Disputationes scholasticae et morales de tribus virtutibus theologicis. De fide volumen secundum, Salamanca, 1631.
• Disputationes scholasticae et morales de spe et charitate, volumen secundum, Salamanca, 1631.
• Disputationes de Deo homine, sive de Incarnatione Filii Dei, Antwerp, 1634.

See also

• Thomism
• School of Salamanca
• Second scholasticism
• Nominalism
• Society of Jesus
• Rodrigo de Arriaga

Further reading

• Caruso, Ester (1979). Pedro Hurtado de Mendoza e la rinascita del nominalismo nella Scolastica del Seicento. Firenze: La Nuova Italia. 
• Novotný, Daniel D. (2014). "The Historical Non-Significance of Suárez’s Theory of Beings of Reason: A Lesson From Hurtado". in Lukáš Novák. Suárez's Metaphysics in its Systematic and Historical Context. Berlin: De Gruyter. pp. 183–207. 
• Schmutz, Jacob (2007). "Hurtado et son double. La querelle des images mentales dans la scolastique moderne". Questions sur l'intentionnalité. Bruxelles: Ousia. pp. 157–232. 
• Novotný, Daniel D. (2016). "Arriaga (and Hurtado) against the Baroque Mainstream: The Case of Ens rationis". Filosofický časopis 64: 119–144. 
• Anfray, Jean-Pascal (2018). "A Jesuit Debate about the Modes of Union: Francisco Suárez vs. Pedro Hurtado de Mendoza?". American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly. doi:10.5840/acpq201931173. 

External links

• Pedro Hurtado de Mendoza at the Biblioteca Virtual Ignacio Larramendi (last actualization 13.01.2009.)
• Scholasticon by Jacob Schmutz