ABSTRACT
Thomas Aquinas maintains that the entity is constituted by the divine fontal causality, which is causa totius esse, but at the same time he warns that the entity is not by the divine Esse, but by its own esse. This double causal aspect that shapes the metaphysical structure of created entities forces us to search for a formula that manages to articulate these two causal aspects, without reciprocal detriment. In this article we propose to find this formula starting from the very nature of causality and its metaphysical foundation.
Keywords:
Thomas Aquinas,; metaphysics of causality; divine causality; causality of being, act; cause