Monday, February 10, 2014

Homework 2/10

What are the five examples of proof that Aquinas gives to prove the existence of God?

1. Everything on earth changes and moves as a result of something else; therefore the first mover must be powerful and does not need anything to move IT. This force is God.
2. Everything is a cause and effect chain- the ultimate first cause, before everything else, is God.
3. There must be something that exists first because of itself, this is God.
4. For one thing there is always something better than the first. So there must be something that is "truest, and best, and most noble, and in consequence, the greatest being". This greatest being would be God.
5. Natural things, lacking reason, move because of a purpose of a greater power, not by chance. This greater power is God.

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