The Polemics Between Frane Petrić and Teodoro Angelucci

U radu je izložena polemika izmedu Frane Petrića i Teodora Angeluccija oko tumačenja Aristotelove Metafizike. Petrić drži da je Aristotelova i peripatetička metafizika kao znanost koja polazi od bića u kretanju i dopire do spoznaje o prvom nepokretnom pokretaču nemoguća. Taj stav temelji Petrić na shvaćanju bića kao bića kao onog najopćenitijeg koje je predmet metafizike. Metafizika kao znanost o onom najopćenitijem ne može biti istovremeno i znanost o onom najposebnijem i najuzvišenijem, o prvom pokretaču ili Bogu. Angelucci naprotiv tvrdi da je Petrićev pojam bića kao bića besmislen i da nije predmet metafizike. Biće kao biće koje je predmet kako Fizike, tako i Metafizike nije najopćenitiji pojam bića, nego je bitak bića. Metafizika i Fizika ne razlikuju se s obzirom na predmet, koji imaju isti, nego s obzirom na stupanj refleksije. Fizika kao spoznaja o prirodnom biću nužno ukazuje na ono iznad sebe, transcendira sebe u metafiziku. Metafizika pak nema kao predmet Boga i odvojene supstancije, nego prirodno biće u relaciji prema njegovom uzroku, Bogu i prirodnim supstancijama. Na kraju se ukazuje na neke suvremene paralele koje upućuju na paradigmatičnost Petrićeve i Angeluccijeve polemike.The paper describes the polemics between Frane Petrić and Teodoro Angelucci that focuses on the interpretation of Aristotle\u27s Metaphysics. Petrić believes that Aristotle\u27s and peripatetical metaphysics is impossible as a science that starts from beings in motion and reaches the knowledge about the first immovable mover. Petrić bases this view on an understanding of being as being as the most general that is the object of metaphysics. Metaphysics as the science about the most general cannot at the same time be a science about the most particular and the most elevated, the first mover or God. Angelucci claims that Petrić\u27s notion of being as being is meaningless, and that it is not an object of metaphysics. Being as being that is an object of Physics and Metaphysics is not the most general notion of being, it is the Being of being. Metaphysics and Physics do not differ because of their respective objects, which are the same, but due to the level of reflection. Physics as the knowledge about the natural being necessarily points at what is above it, transcending itself into metaphysics. Metaphysics, on the other hand, does not have God and separate substances as its object, but the natural being in relation with its cause, God and natural substances. The authoress finally points at some of the modern parallels that show the paradigmatic quality of Petrić\u27s and Angelucci\u27s polemics