Santo Tomás y la Postmodernidad.

The article outlines the thesis that the so-called postmodernity is the last stage of the dissolution of the medieval synthesis that reaches its fullest expression in the work of Saint Thomas Aquinas. It stresses the role of the Blessed John Duns Scotus in the introduction of a new way of thinking that ends up dissolving the thrust of the Fathers and Scholasticism. The theological defense of God’s freedom, which leads to the “theological voluntarism” as opposed to the excessive intellectualism of Avicenna, leads to the decomposition of the analogical unity of being, which is deprived of metaphysical consistency by the radical contingency that voluntarism assignes to the essences of created beings. Ockhamist Nominalism is a radicalization of that same way of thinking, which puts its stamp on all subsequent philosophical development to this day, in the sense of enclosing the intellect in the immanence of its own representations without contact with being. While “modernity”, at least in the rationalist side, retained, in an inconsistent way, in our opinion, the notion of the universal and absolute, we see “postmodernism” as a settlement of that inconsistency in the sense of a serious attempt to radical immanence which leads logically into relativism and nihilism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]