
By Sabine Folger-Fonfara
The background of contemporary metaphysics is largely marked by means of its splitting up right into a "metaphysica generalis" and a "metaphysica specialis," a widely known contrast specially inside Christian Wolff s systematic perception of metaphysics. This examine investigates the particular origins of this crucial improvement, which are already stumbled on before everything of the 14th century. at the foundation of a essentially revised doctrine of transcendentals the Franciscan theologian Francis of Marchia ( 1290-1344) introduces for the 1st time a dissociation of the "primum cognitum" of the human mind from the topic of metaphysics, in keeping with which metaphysics isn't any longer one technology within the feel of a "scientia transcendens," as such a lot of his predecessors claimed within the thirteenth century, yet particularly twofold: ontology and theology."