Responses to Quaestio

Abstract

In this article I wish to illustrate realism’s position with regard to modern and contemporary philosophy and its transcendental turn. I will posit that new realism, while being very well aware of this turn (followed in particular by postmodern thinkers), rejects it: in fact, from a realist perspective, the existence of ancestral beings, existing long before humans, proves that reality cannot be regarded as a correlate of human thought. I will therefore respectively refute the theories positing the dependency of reality on thought, arguing that the main problem with anti-realism stems from a twofold confusion: between ontology and epistemology on one side, and between natural objects and social objects on the other. Finally, I will dwell on the perspectives which today lie in the proposal of a positive realism.