Pedro Hurtado de Mendoza (1578,

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– November 10, 1641,

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) was a

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scholastic

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and

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Philosophical work

He was a teacher of theology and philosophy in

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and he occupied a chair at the

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. Hurtado belonged to the third generation of

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scholars and initiated the shift from more realist positions of Francisco Suárez and

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towards

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and Francisco Oviedo.

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'', Antwerpen, 1634.

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