First way
- Created by: Abigail Woosey
- Created on: 02-04-13 19:10
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- First Way
- Everything that is moving or changing is moved or changed by something outside itself.
- The instigator of the motion or change in a thing is also changing or in motion
- There must be an independent mover of everything else.
- The unmoved mover.
- This process cannot go back infinitely, since there would then be 'no first mover'.
- Therefore there must be a first mover, independent of anything else.
- This is what everyone understands to be God.
- Therefore there must be a first mover, independent of anything else.
- Motion or state of change
- eg: people growing, wood burning.
- things achieving their potential
- external influence
- Nothing can move or change itself
- Wood burns because fire is applied
- Nothing can move or change itself
- external influence
- things achieving their potential
- eg: people growing, wood burning.
- If everything was a secondary mover, there would be an infinite regress of movers
- The infinite train
- if this was true there would be no prime mover and hence no subsequent movers but this is false.
- Motion is not just about going from one place to another but a change in quality
- eg: caterpillar into a butterfly.
- All things have potentiality except God who has full actuality.
- eg: caterpillar into a butterfly.
- Way 1 is clearly based on Aristotle, although there are differences (Aquinas's) idea of God is a God who creates the universe, who is involved in the universe.
- 'It is certain, and evident to our senses.' - AQUINAS
- This process cannot go back infinitely, since there would then be 'no first mover'.
- Therefore there must be a first mover, independent of anything else.
- This is what everyone understands to be God.
- Therefore there must be a first mover, independent of anything else.
- In order for things to change it requires actuality
- This process cannot go back infinitely, since there would then be 'no first mover'.
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