Notes on Tomist ontology: the "entis analogy"

Abstract

The analogy has the grace of being a dark and difficult affair and, as if that were not enough, of transiting any field of study into philosophy. As a result, Cayetano made it ostensible to advance metaphysics or any major philosophical problem without first facing it.1

The use2 of the analogy dates from the time of Homer,3 the Greek poet par excellence, in his simple formation,4 through the presocratics5 to reach Plato,6 Aristotle,7 Thomas Aquinas8 (if you want to think of a more systematic study and 

Francisco Suarez, who touched the sore of intrinsic attribution,9 and, more recently, Karl Barth, in the theological field, who proposed the analogia fidei in the face of analogia entis.