Aquinas Teleological
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- Created on: 25-04-13 19:14
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- Aquinas (13th Century) Teleological
- 5th of Five ways
- Something that lacks intelligence ca not cause itself to move unless something intelligent moves them
- believed that there must be an intelligence lying behind the functions of the organisms
- ANALOGY - archer - an unintelligent object (such as an arrow) can only be aimed towards a goal (such as a target) with the guiding hand of an intelligent being (an archer)
- The universe follows natural laws even if they possess no intelligence (E.G. regular movement of the stars in the sky)
- In fulling their end purpose they dont have the ability to think for themselves which suggests that they have been directed by something else
- For aquinas, the only possible explanation for this guiding intelligence was God
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