Companion to Luis de Molina

Matthias Kaufmann (DPhil & Habilitation 1986 & 1992, Universität Erlangen) is Professor of Ethics and director of the Seminar für Philosophie and of the Graduate School „Society and Culture in Motion“ at the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle Wittenberg. Specialized in the history of ethics, political philosophy and the philosophy of law, including the normative implications of cultural diversity, he is the author of Aufgeklärte Anarchie. Eine Einführung in die politische Philosophie. Berlin 1999 (Akademie Verlag, Turkish, Italian & French translations 2003, 2007, 2011). His most recent book is Em defesa dos direitos humanos. Considerações Históricas e de principio São Leopoldo (Unisinos) 2013. Alexander Aichele, (DPhil & Habil. 2000 & 2007, Univ. Halle) is Privatdozent in the Seminar für Philosophie at the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. His main interests concern metaphysics, moral philosophy and philosophy of law as well as ancient and early modern philosophy and philosophy of enlightenment. He is author of Philosophie als Spiel: Platon - Kant - Nietzsche (Berlin 2000) and Ontologie des Nicht-Seienden. Aristoteles’ Metaphysik der Bewegung (Göttingen 2009).

“This volume does much to demystify the work of Molina by separating it from the complex question of his broader legacy, and provides a useful tool for any scholar looking to situate Molina within his Iberian Scholastic context—a context that would have global effects.”Michael VanZandt Collins, Boston College. In: Journal of Jesuit Studies, Vol. 2, No. 1 (2015), pp. 155-158.‘’The work is an impressive addition to the growing corpus of work on Molina’s thought and influence in several areas of philosophical import.’’John D. Laing, Southwest Baptist Theological Seminary. In: Journal of the History of Philosophy, Vol. 53, No 1 (2015), p. 160.“This is a valuable and in every sense weighty summary of the current state of Molina scholarship.”Harro Maximilian Höpfl, University of Essex. In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 66, No. 4 (2015), pp. 883-884.

• Introduction: Alexander Aichele/Matthias KaufmannPart I Freedom of Will and God’s ProvidenceChapter One - The Real Possibility of FreedomAlexander AicheleChapter Two - Divine Foreknowledge of Future Contingents and NecessityPetr DvorakChapter Three - Predestination as Transcendent Teleology: Molina and the First MolinismJuan Cruz CruzPart II A Rights-Based Theory of LawChapter Four - Rights and dominiumJörg Alejandro TellkampChapter Five - Luis de Molina on Law and PowerAnnabel BrettChapter Six - Slavery between Law, Morality, and EconomyMatthias KaufmannChapter Seven - Luis de Molina: On WarJoao Manuel A. A. Fernandes Chapter Eight - The Economic Thought of Luis de MolinaRudolf SchüsslerPart III Molina’s Medieval Sources and the Following Debates in Modern TimesChapter Nine - Molina and AquinasRev. Romanus Cessario, OPChapter Ten - Molina and John Duns ScotusJean-Pascal AnfrayChapter Eleven - The Philosophical Impact of Molinism in the 17th centuryFrancesco PiroChapter Twelve - “Ludewig” Molina and Kant’s Libertarian CompatibilismWolfgang ErtlConcordance Index to Iustitia et Iure BibliographyAbout the AuthorsIndex NominumIndex LocorumIndex Rerum