Aquinas' ways
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- Created on: 12-06-18 15:08
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- Aquinas' wayz
- First way
- Motion or change
- Everything is constantly moving and changing, in consequence from the change before that.
- It is impossible that it has been going on forever (infinite regress)
- Needs to be something that started the motion
- This is God
- Needs to be something that started the motion
- It is impossible that it has been going on forever (infinite regress)
- Second way
- Causation
- Nothing that exists is the cause of itself to exist
- This means it is impossible that it has been going on forever
- This means there must be something that came into existence
- This is God
- Aquinas does not explain why there cannot only be secondary causes
- First way
- Motion or change
- Everything is constantly moving and changing, in consequence from the change before that.
- It is impossible that it has been going on forever (infinite regress)
- Needs to be something that started the motion
- This is God
- Needs to be something that started the motion
- It is impossible that it has been going on forever (infinite regress)
- First way
- This means there must be something that came into existence
- This means it is impossible that it has been going on forever
- Nothing that exists is the cause of itself to exist
- Objects coming into existence
- Causation
- Third way
- Necessity to contingency
- Everything in the world relies on something to exist
- Need a necessary being (God) which doesn't depend on anything else to survive
- Leibniz
- If the Universe has always been in existence it would still require an answer or a sufficient reason for its existence
- Leibniz
- Need a necessary being (God) which doesn't depend on anything else to survive
- Everything in the world relies on something to exist
- Necessity to contingency
- Fourth way
- Goodness
- All things are more or less perfect
- In order to know the process of becoming perfect, implies a being that is to that decree.
- Maximum perfection = God
- In order to know the process of becoming perfect, implies a being that is to that decree.
- All things are more or less perfect
- Goodness
- Fifth way
- Design argument
- Everything in nature is following it's natural laws
- There must be something that has directed the law/purpose in the first place
- God
- E.g when an arrow is fired at the target, it did not launch itself. It was launched by an archer
- There must be something that has directed the law/purpose in the first place
- Everything in nature is following it's natural laws
- Design argument
- First way
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