Pedro da Fonseca (1528 to 4 November 1599) was a Portuguese Jesuit priest, philosopher and theologian who belonged to the School of Salamanca and was known in his own day as the Portuguese Aristotle. Born at Proença-a-Nova, he joined the Society of Jesus at Coimbra in 1548, taught at Évora and Coimbra, and later worked in Rome as a scholar and church administrator. He planned the Cursus Conimbricensis, wrote a long commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics, and published works on logic that leaned toward humanism more than late scholasticism. He is best remembered for devising scientia media, middle knowledge in God, as a way to reconcile divine grace with human free will, an idea his pupil Luis de Molina later developed more fully.
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Pedro da Fonseca (Latin: Petrus Fonsecae; 1528 – 4 November 1599) was a Portuguese Jesuit Catholic priest, philosopher, theologian, and member of the School of Salamanca.
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Pedro da Fonseca was born in Proença-a-Nova, Portugal, in 1528
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Pedro da Fonseca (Latin: Petrus Fonsecae; 1528-4 November 1599) was a Portuguese Jesuit Catholic priest, philosopher, theologian, and member of the School of Salamanca.
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Pedro da Fonseca was born in Proença-a-Nova, Portugal, in 1528
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was a Portuguese Jesuit Catholic priest, philosopher, theologian, and member of the School of Salamanca
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His work on logic and metaphysics made him known in his time as the Portuguese Aristotle
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His work on logic and metaphysics made him known in his time as the Portuguese Aristotle
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His work on logic and metaphysics made him known in his time as the Portuguese Aristotle
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His work on logic and metaphysics made him known in his time as the Portuguese Aristotle
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Following the advice of Pedro da Fonseca, he continued his studies after obtaining his master's degree in 1558
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Aristoteles, der Bibel, Thomas von Aquin, Augustinus, Petrus Ramus, Jean Bodin, Francesco Piccolomini, Petrus Fonseca, Julius Caesar Scaliger und Rudolph Goclenius
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