MEMORY OF THE BEING AND AFFI RMATION OF GOD IN LIMA VAZ (IV)

Abstract

In this fourth research article whose themes are the Memory of Be­ing and the Affirmation of God in Lima Vaz, the philosopher’s criticism of the transformation of Aquinas’s Metaphysics of Esse becomes much clearer. It results from the process of inversion of its noetic and metaphysical vector that started with Duns Scotus. Vaz’s criticism extends right up to the new philosophical framework developed by Suarez and the latter’s conception of a metaphysical system whose best-known representatives would be Descartes, Kant and Hegel. Lima Vaz’s semantics categorizes this period as modern modernity, or even post-Christian modernity. Contemporary authors prefer to speak of late modernity. Over the course of approximately four and a half centuries, a new theoretical basis, or a new theoretical framework, has been established based on the primacy of representation. It is the Metaphysics of subjectivity that provided Lima Vaz with a referential framework for his cultural hermeneutics of post-modernity.