La causalidad en la creación según Thierry de Chartres

Abstract

This essay concentrates on Thierry's Tractatus de sex dierum operibus, and shows that causality is the axis of his ontological comprehension of reality (rerum universitas): from a philosophical point of view, causality explains the existence of real multiplicity from the One, whereas the theological perspective shows creation as the work of the Triune God. Causality, as Thierry understands it, implies participation, thus guaranteeing the causal capacity of natural beings and, consequently, their real autonomy within their realm, though dependent on the supreme cause, without which nothing would exist.