THE THOMIST PERENNIAL PHILOSOPHY AND ITS VITALITY

THE METAPHYSICS OF BEING AS AN INTELLECTUAL CHALLENGE TO THE (NOT) THINKING OF MODERNITY

Abstract

This text aims to reflect on the metaphysics of the Thomist matrix as an epistemic challenge to (not) think about modernity and its reflections in the multifaceted vicissitudes bewildering of knowledge in contemporary society. As wisdom, metaphysics helps to judge and order things well. As a science, the metaphysics of being takes care of what is separated from matter. As an intellection of being as being, it brings universality and necessity as attributes of greater relevance of particular and contingent things. And, as a critique of knowledge, it is confronted with modern thinking, since its idealism intends to occupy the place of realism. There is only one supreme science with its principles and, for Thomas Aquinas, metaphysics disputes against what denies them, based on the reality of being, the given first and the object proper to intelligence.