| Summary: | The article analyzes the meaning of the concept of res in Descartes’
metaphysics. The basic meaning is that thing is an essence that could have
even real existence. Through the analysis of Descartes’ works that meaning
has made more precise against the background of the rational distinction
between essence and existence. The relations among the thing and the notions
of reality (realitas), the degrees of reality and the modes of reality were
shown. The special attention is dedicated to the relation between the thing
and the causality, i.e., to the problems how the things could cause and what
is the cause of things. The problem of causality is connected with Descartes’
teaching concerning the creation of eternal truths; that connection expresses
the difference between his and scholastics’ concept of thing, which is
obvious in his concept of the causation of the degrees of reality. At the end
the late, scholastics’ notion of supertranscendental meaning of thing is
shown in Descartes. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br.
179049]
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