By far the best-known of the School of Salamanca was Francisco Suarez, the most famous philosopher of the sixteenth century and of the Jesuit order. He is regarded by modern followers of Aquinas as the foremost of the “decadent Scholastics,” to whose perversions they attribute the decline of medieval thought. His taste for novelty (as we would say, originality) in opinions, while staying within the Scholastic framework of questions, is expressed in his treatment of obligation and doubt.
