%0 Journal Article %T Sobre a necessidade e os limites da metaf¨ªsica em Duns Scotus %A Rodrigo Guerizoli %J DoisPontos %D 2010 %I Universidade Federal do Paran¨¢, Universidade Federal de S?o Carlos %X Based on a prescriptive sense of necessity, as applied to something which is a condition for the possibility of reaching a certain goal, initially I analyze the Scotist procedure of neutralization of two traditional views on the necessity of metaphysics. There is, on the one hand, the neutralization of the philosophi¡¯s pretension of having demonstrated the sufficiency of metaphysics for the attainment of our last end; and, on the other hand, the neutralization of the theologi¡¯s attempt of proving the insufficiency of the metaphysics for the realization of the same end. Scotus¡¯ own attempt to justify the necessity of metaphysics will be then reconstructed, an attempt which incorporates vis-¨¤-vis the tradition features of a profound redefinition of the objectives and procedures of that science. %K Duns Scotus %K Metaphysics %K Theology %U http://ojs.c3sl.ufpr.br/ojs2/index.php/doispontos/article/view/20123/13300