 It is scarcely credible that there is no complete English translation of Suarez's great masterpiece of metaphysics, the Metaphysical  Disputations[5]—though,  happily, we do possess a translation into  Spanish.[6]  It is a work of surpassing sophistication and comprehensiveness, serving at once as a kind of authoritative epitome of ancient  and[7]  medieval metaphysics and as a free-standing, incisive, and original discussion of all topics pertaining to metaphysics, conceived, according to Suárez's understanding of this subject, as the study of being. As Schopenhauer remarked, the work is “an authentic compendium of the whole scholastic tradition”. Extending to fifty-four disputations, each in its own right effectively a dedicated monograph on a discrete topic, the work contains 7,709 references, citing some 245 authors, led in typical scholastic fashion by Aristotle, who receives 1,735 references, followed by Thomas Aquinas, with whose philosophy Suárez retains an animating sympathy, who receives 1,008 (Iturrioz 1949). Still, Suárez is hardly beholden to Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, or any other thinker: he is, as his Metaphysical Disputations makes manifest, a thinker of fearless originality and innovation.