# First cause

- Id: `first_cause`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/first-cause/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `fa1ec296bd75b2e7539432710b0502c32c1526c71d51ef7c1a0b22b9c05121f2`

## Summary

First cause names the principle on which an order of causes depends, rather than merely the earliest event in an ordinary temporal sequence.

## Overview

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 455 passages across 1 works, including Summa Contra Gentiles. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 1,
    "passages": 455,
    "thinkers": 1,
    "traditions": 1
}
```

## Related traditions

```json
[
    {
        "id": "modern-philosophy",
        "name": "Modern and contemporary philosophy",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/modern-and-contemporary-philosophy/"
    }
]
```

## Related works

```json
[
    {
        "id": "thomas_aquinas.summa_contra_gentiles",
        "title": "Summa Contra Gentiles",
        "author": "Thomas Aquinas",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/thomas-aquinas/summa-contra-gentiles/"
    }
]
```