#FranciscoSuarez

“Scholasticism didn't die at the end of the Middle Ages — it organized itself into the very textbooks the modern philosophers were trained on, and Suárez wrote the biggest of them. The revolution that overthrew scholasticism was written in his vocabulary.”

“The medieval synthesis, systematized into the textbook Europe learned from: being, law, and the claim that political power comes from God to the people, who lend it to kings on conditions.”