CASSY JONES FELIPE CARDOSO DA SILVA

It is a matter of investigating the transformations in the conception of metaphysics as a science in its systematic development between the periods of medieval and late scholasticism and the modern era of Kantian philosophy. The proposal involves a philosophical archaeology investigation. In coherence with late scholastic thought, Schulmetaphysik, with Wolff and Baumgarten, established the possibility of the object of metaphysics in relation to the principle of non-contradiction. The literature acknowledges the reception of late or Iberian scholasticism in German university philosophy. In summary, the "essentialization" of first philosophy in Francisco Suárez, heir to Duns Scotus, had the effect of separating first philosophy from natural theology, dissociated from any commitment to the currently existing. The concept of being cannot be restricted to any determination; on the contrary, it must acquire maximum generality to encompass all those possessing real essence. With Kant, the possibility of thought is guided by analytic criteria, but the synthetic conditions of knowledge, which are the conditions of experience, are not reducible to the rules of understanding.