Metaphysical commentaries

This is a list of my commentaries on various philosophical texts, which I wrote as a means to develop the opinions from my fundamental metaphysics.

While they will also be listed in the full list of posts, in this list I will write a short summary of what I do in each of them, so that my development is easier to track.

• Fundamental metaphysics: Not a commentary. Defines being, non-being, matter, form, nothingness, final cause, formal cause, material cause, efficient cause.

• Hume’s relations: Comments on Hume’s Treatise, §1.1.5. Defines relation, contrary opposition, contradictory opposition, difference in kind, difference in number.

• Substance and accident: Comments on Hume’s Treatise, §1.1.6. Defines substance and accident.

• Hume’s required medium: Comments on Hume’s Enquiry, §4. Elaborates on a priori reasoning about apparent motions.

• Principles of nature: Comments on Thomas Aquinas’s De principiis naturæ. Explicitly defines act, potency, agent, privation, and element; gives new explanations of form and nothingness, which had already been defined. Implicitly defines generation, corruption, cause, principle, absolute necessity, conditional necessity, per se cause, per accidens cause, simple cause, composed cause.

• Descartes’s confusions: Comments on the Discourse on the Method. Criticizes a misleading, ambiguous concept of “existence”.