Neumann Hardy

Con la tesis de que en el lenguaje ordinario ‘la existencia es un predicado del pensamiento acerca de la cosa’ Kant puede ser considerado como un precursor de las modernas teorías en torno a la existencia como un predicado de segundo nivel. El artículo analiza esta idea nuclear del período precrítico y examina las razones que ofrece Kant para sustentarla. De este modo, Kant intenta evitar la formulación de enunciados disparatados en metafísica y sugiere la forma correcta de construirlos. Además de los pasajes correspondientes del Beweisgrund, el análisis se acompaña de algunos textos de la Crítica de la razón pura y del Nachlaß.With the thesis, in ordinary speech ‘existence is a predicate of the thought one has of it’, Kant may be considered as a precursor of modern theories about existence as a second-level predicate. The article analyses this core idea arising from the precritical period and reviews the reasons Kant gives to sustain that. This way Kant tries to avoid formulations of disparate sentences in metaphysics and suggests the right way to build them. Besides the passages of the Beweisgrund, the analysis also contains some key texts of the Critic of Pure Reason and of the Nachlaß

The research of H.-G. Gadamer and F. Volpi have showed the intimate connection between Sein und Zeit and the philosophy of Aristotle, specially the Nicomachean Ethics. The influence of other thinkers on the hermeneutical phenomenology has received less attention. Amongst the thinkers, whose contributions have not been sufficiently highlighted figures Leibniz. In this context, some relations between Leibniz’s monadological thinking and the metaphysics of Heidegger’s Dasein are considered and interpreted in this paper. It is argued that, to certain extent, an appropriation of Monadology’s metaphysics takes place in Dasein’s metaphysics