The Account of Transcendental Concepts by Jerónimo Valera (1568-1625) in His Summulae dialecticae (1610)

The Peruvian Franciscan thinker Jerónimo Valera (1568-1625) published in 1610 his Commentarii ac quaestiones in universam Aristotelis ac Subtilissimi Doctoris Ioannis Duns Scoti logicam, which was the first philosophical work printed in South America. Both in his Summulae dialecticae and in the Books that comprise his Commentarii he deals with metaphysical questions. In this paper, we illustrate how he inserts important Scotist logical-metaphysical doctrines in his logical work, in this case the account of transcendental concepts given in his Summulae.