The First Cause

<p><em>First Cause: Ipsum Esse Subsistens Aeternum - Rethinking God in a Scientific Age</em> exposes the deep metaphysical fracture at the center of modern thought and reconstructs a unified philosophical framework capable of repairing it. For centuries debates over the <em>a priori </em>have divided philosophy into rival camps-rationalist versus empiricist analytic versus continental-yet the true origin of this divide and its far-reaching consequences for metaphysics science and theology has remained obscured. This book brings that hidden rupture to light and offers a coherent path beyond it.</p><p></p><p>The central thesis is uncompromising: early modern philosophy severed intelligibility from experience generating the crisis that shaped the last three hundred years of thought. Once being causality necessity and essence were disconnected from their grounding in reality itself Hume's skepticism became unavoidable Kant's limits on knowledge became permanent and classical metaphysics was pushed to the margins. <em>First Cause</em> dismantles this inherited framework and rebuilds a synthetic a priori rooted in the intelligibility of being. Drawing together Aristotelian principles Thomistic metaphysics contemporary modal logic analytic philosophy and insights from the natural sciences the book offers a renewed account in which causality necessity and essence become rationally necessary features of a unified metaphysical system.</p><p></p><p>What distinguishes this work is its integration of classical theism with modern analytic precision. It recovers a robust account of <em>ipsum esse subsistens</em>-the self-subsistent act of being-and demonstrates that the intelligibility of the world whether scientific philosophical or experiential presupposes a necessary eternal incorporeal First Cause. God is not treated as an optional explanatory add-on but as the metaphysical ground that makes reason causality and coherent explanation possible. In this framework the very possibility of understanding anything at all points beyond contingent reality to a transcendent source of existence.</p><p></p><p>At a time when modern philosophy faces fragmentation skepticism and conceptual exhaustion <em>First Cause</em> offers a way forward. It reunites metaphysics with reason restores the classical tradition to philosophical relevance and provides a clear alternative to naturalism by showing that reality is structured intelligible and grounded in necessity rather than accident. The result is a system that speaks simultaneously to ancient insights and contemporary scientific thought.</p><p></p><p>Ideal for philosophers theologians scientists graduate students and thoughtful readers seeking clarity about existence causality and the foundations of intelligibility this book invites the reader to reconsider the nature of reality and the rational inevitability of a First Cause. It restores metaphysics to its rightful place and opens a renewed path toward understanding why anything exists at all.</p>