Author : Sabine Folger-Fonfara
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047432320
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Book Synopsis Das 'Super'-Transzendentale und die Spaltung der Metaphysik by : Sabine Folger-Fonfara
Download or read book Das 'Super'-Transzendentale und die Spaltung der Metaphysik written by Sabine Folger-Fonfara and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-12-31 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of modern metaphysics is essentially marked by its splitting up into a metaphysica generalis and a metaphysica specialis, a well-known distinction especially within Christian Wolff’s systematic conception of metaphysics. This study investigates the actual origins of this significant development, which can be already found at the beginning of the 14th century. On the basis of a fundamentally revised doctrine of transcendentals the Franciscan theologian Francis of Marchia (~1290-1344) introduces for the first time a dissociation of the primum cognitum of the human intellect from the subject of metaphysics, according to which metaphysics is no longer one science in the sense of a scientia transcendens, as most of his predecessors claimed in the 13th century, but rather twofold: ontology and theology.