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Gaven Kerr, O.P., in his excellent book Aquinas’s Way to God: The Proof in De Ente et Essentia (2015), reconstructs, in a supportive manner, St. Thomas Aquinas’s metaphysical argument for the existence of God from the work De Ente et Essentia. This argument, although less discussed than his five ways, expressed the most important and original principles of Aquinas’s metaphysics. Kerr’s book has two advantages, namely (i) it is based on meticulously analysed source texts written by Thomas, and (ii) it consistently defends his main ideas in the context of problems discussed in contemporary analytic metaphysics. Thanks to this, the reader is presented with Aquinas’s authentic argument, which can be at the same time treated as a serious and upto-date metaphysical proposal. Nowhere does Kerr summarize Thomas’s argument in a more formal way. Being based on Kerr’s book (cf. KERR 2015, e.g. 92, 148), however, Aquinas–Kerr’s argument can be easily (although with a certain degree of simplification) outlined in the following way: (1) There are things in which the real distinction and composition of essence and esse occurs. (2) If there are things in which the real distinction and composition of essence and esse occurs, then each of these things needs a distinct cause of its esse.

Existence and God: On Aquinas–Kerr’s Metaphysical Argument