How was the Classical Metaphysics Made?

• Main Author: V. SHOKHIN
• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: St. Tikhon's Orthodox University 2015-10-01
• Series: Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия
• Subjects: metaphysics; the first philosophy; ontology; cosmology; psychology; theology; the real; the intelligible; Aristotelianism; “school philosophy”
• Online Access: http://periodical.pstgu.ru/en/pdf/article/3073

It is true that the Western metaphysics could be described as a continual tradition, which up to these days has been working on the issues and challenges coming from the Academy and Liceum, but its history has also undergone the shifts of paradigms linked with changes in its self-consciousness. The article deals with the passage from the traditional metaphysics, which covered two millenniums, to the classical stage dating from the early Modernity to the early Enlightenment wherein not the most notorious “great philosophers” but the scarcely known German “school philosophers” of the latest sixteenth — earliest seventeenth centuries played key roles. The research is concluded by reflections on the significance of the classical metaphysics for the later periods of the Continental philosophy and on the relevance of Clemens Timpler’s and Jacob Lorhard’s postulate that not so much the real as the intelligible should be the subject matter of metaphysics for contemporary theology.