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Subjectivity and sovereignty: The Cartesian dimension of the position of the sovereign in Hobbes' "Leviathan"
No full textAlthough Hobbes' understanding of the sovereign's position in a state and Descartes' understanding of God arose completely independently from each other, there is a strong structural similarity between the two. After elaborating on this point, the author demonstrates the metaphysical foundation of Hobbes' conception of the sovereign. The main thesis of the paper is that the subjectivity of sovereign is not the so-called 'empirical' subjectivity of early modern philosophy, but that it is equivalent to God's subjectivity, as understood in Descartes as immense power
Caterus and Descartes on ideas, causality and eternal truths
Full text linkThe article analyzes the objections of Johannes Caterus, the author of the Fist objections on Meditations, concerning Descartes’ understanding of the objective reality of ideas, as well as Descartes’ First replies. Caterus’ critique rests on late Scholastics understanding of the act of conceiving and its objective terminus, and subsequent notions esse objectivum and realitas objectiva. Since they are extrinsic denominations of extramental represented thing, Caterus concludes that there is no room for the question about their cause. Despite his late Scholastics background, and without knowing for Descartes’ doctrine about the creation external truths, Caterus realized that for Descartes the degree of the objective reality of ideas is intrinsic denomination of the essence of thing, that requires efficient cause and that is equivalent with the creation of eternal truths. In his response, Descartes contrasts late Scholastics understanding with his new “ontology of the possible” according to which there are intramental essences of things, with objective being (esse objectivum) which cannot be reduced to extrinsic denomination (“non nihil”) and which requires actual efficient cause. From that he concludes that very conceivability and intelligibility of essences requires efficient cause
O nekim realnim kompozicijama u Akvinčevoj metafizici
No full textU tekstu su analizirane neke od najvažnijih realnih kompozicija u metafizici Tome Akvinskog, kompozicije forme i materije, supozita i prirode, supstancije i akcidencije, te akta i potencije. Potencija i akt jesu na jedan način poistovećeni s drugim principima utoliko što potencija i akt označavaju izvesne konstitutivne tendencije koje drugi principi imaju kao nešto zajedničko. Zbog ograničenosti prostora nije razmatrana najpoznatija i najtemeljnija kompozicija za Akvinčevu metafiziku, ona suštine i bivstvovanja (esse) u stvorenim bićima.The article analyzes some of the most important real compositions in Aquinas’s metaphysics: form and matter, supposit and nature, substance and accident, as well as act and potency. On some way, act and potency are identified with the other principles insofar as they designate certain constitutive tendencies which other principles have as common. Because of the lack of the space, the most important composition for the Aquinas’s metaphysics have not been considered that is the real composition between esse and essence in created beings
Biće (ens) kao maxime primum kod Tome Akvinskog
Full text linkToma Akvinski tvrdi da je biće (ens) ono što je prvo spoznato razumom, te da se njime ništa ne može shvatiti ako nije biće. Ta se primarnost bića u radu analizira sa spoznajne strane (biće kao primum cognitum) i s metafizičke strane (biće kao actus essendi). U tom kontekstu, razmotren je i pojam svođenja (resolutio) kao načina dolaska do spoznaje bića, kao i odnos bića spram transcendentalije stvar (res).Thomas Aquinas claims that ens is the first known by the intellect; and that it is not possible to conceive anything if it is not an ens. That firstnes of being is analyzed from its epistemological aspect (ens as primim cognitum) as well as from metaphysical one (ens as actus essendi). In that context; the notion of resolutio is considered and the relation of being and transcendental notion of thing (res)
Post-humanism of The Matrix Trilogy
No full textThere are traces of very diverse Eastern and Western lines of thought in The Matrix
Trilogy2, which speaks eloquently about its richness of ideas. Being ‘philosophical’
The Matrix Trilogy is not a boring film and long-winded; instead of talking endlessly,
the characters are working ceaselessly, and that work is changing them. In
this paper, I will try to interpret the changes in the main character, Neo, against the
background of some classic ideas about the human being in Western philosophy.
The main theses of this text are the following: In The Matrix Trilogy, Platonist,
Cartesian and Hegelian ideas about man are clearly recognizable. On their general
plain, plots of the films express movement (progress?) from Plato via Descartes
to Hegel3 – and further
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