Cosmos, caos y orden: paralelismo entre Santo Tomás de Aquino y C. S. Peirce

Abstract

The five ways for the Existence of God, developed by saint Thomas Aquinas in his Summa Theologiae, share an analogous argumentative structure: they start from the study of some metaphysical property, common to all entities accessible to sensible experience, to conclude, through its analysis, the necessity of the Absolute Being. In turn, C. S. Peirce formulated three doctrines in his scientific metaphysics (tychism, synechism and agapism) to describe the emergence of patrons and order starting from a reality, which is random in principle. The aim of this work is to show the parallelism between these two proposals, parallelism that rests on their metaphysical nature and on their realistic epistemology.