SUAREZ'DE AKIL VARLIKLARI OLARAK OLUMSUZLAMA VE YOKSUNLUK

Abstract

Negation and privation have been seen as a kind of being since Aristotle. Francisco Suarez, one of the representatives of Baroque scholasticism, characterized these two concepts together with relations of reason as being of reason and examined them in the 54th disputation of his Metaphysical Disputations. Suarez is known as the first philosopher who has studied beings of reason in a metaphysical enquiry. His reason for this investigation is that the metaphysical issues are difficult to comprehend without beings of reason. In Suarez, metaphysics deals with real beings which have real essence and are apt to existence. Beings of reason are not sufficient for a real existence. These beings are understood via an analogy with real beings. Negation and privation as the being of reason have the character of removing a form. Both negation and privation contain negativity, even though privation is distinguished from negation by the tendency to a form. Suarez described imaginary beings such as chimera as impossible beings and classified them under the negation. Beings of reason are made by an act of the mind or intellect. The powers of mind about beings of reason are reason and thinking. The faculty of imagination is also effective for the formation of these beings in cooperation with reason.