Thomas Aquinas Five Arguments For The Existence Of God
Now I begin my discussion on how greatly do St. Thomas Aquinas talks about God’s existence in his five arguments. The challenging question at hand is whether there is the well-structured argument that explains the possibility of the existence of God. There are positions that anyone would take, and this would be theism, atheism or agnosticism. Holding onto a given position will not determine the validity of the other without answering this challenging question. Since even if this position merged, there are no clear arguments that prove God is existing. Therefore, in this work am going to answer two questions: does God exist And the other is what do the five arguments by Aquinas speak concerning his metaphysics1, 2.
I will discuss how perfect do the existence of God presented by the five ways that St. Aquinas Thomas argued in his philosophical work. During his time, 1225 to 1275, some existing condemnation term their work heretical by bishops in Paris. Later the church agreed with him and made him a great philosopher and a …show more content…
Aquinas properly uses is through analyzing efficient cause by using senses which find organized in an orderly manner. He does this very well when he says that there is no evidence for anything whose efficient cause belongs to itself as it is impossible for it to have existed before itself8, 9. We cannot access infinity because of order inefficient cause, i.e. intermediate cause is caused by a first cause which triggers an ultimate cause. The intermediate cause may be single or multiple. When you remove a cause you will withdraw an effect and thus it follows that without it there will be no any ultimate or intermediate causes. However, with immediate efficient cause, we can proceed to infinite. Here, no initial efficient cause neither the presence of ultimate impact nor intermediate efficient cause something that is merely untrue. And hence the vitality to admit initial efficiency cause which all of us call it
I will discuss how perfect do the existence of God presented by the five ways that St. Aquinas Thomas argued in his philosophical work. During his time, 1225 to 1275, some existing condemnation term their work heretical by bishops in Paris. Later the church agreed with him and made him a great philosopher and a …show more content…
Aquinas properly uses is through analyzing efficient cause by using senses which find organized in an orderly manner. He does this very well when he says that there is no evidence for anything whose efficient cause belongs to itself as it is impossible for it to have existed before itself8, 9. We cannot access infinity because of order inefficient cause, i.e. intermediate cause is caused by a first cause which triggers an ultimate cause. The intermediate cause may be single or multiple. When you remove a cause you will withdraw an effect and thus it follows that without it there will be no any ultimate or intermediate causes. However, with immediate efficient cause, we can proceed to infinite. Here, no initial efficient cause neither the presence of ultimate impact nor intermediate efficient cause something that is merely untrue. And hence the vitality to admit initial efficiency cause which all of us call it