FIRST PHILOSOPHY: CAUSE, PRINCIPLE, ORIGINS

Metaphysics, classic or modern, questions reason, which, by nature, seeks the foundation of the sensitive and intellectual realities we experience in our existences. The idea of a foundation traditionally takes the form of an antecedent reality, whether a priori or archaeological, and is expressed in different terms, such as cause, or principle, or origin. Do they have the same meaning? Do they not, rather, express specific and different aspects of this foundation, which do not exclude, but rather complement each other within the idea of freedom?