Aaron, do you know a place in the corpus where Aquinas explicitly argues: 1. against backwards causality 2. that the final cause/end must "exist in so...
Aaron:"For Aquinas, these cannot exist in material nature because then they would have to exist in the future, which is, according to him, absurd (Aqu...
"The Fourth Way argument goes as far as to prove that there must exist a being whose essence is moral goodness to the maximum degree." I agree that Ch...
"The Fourth Way, or argument from degree, is not dependant on the claim that God's essence is identical with His existence. The argument only depends ...
Hello Samuel, what you write in your second paragraph has not been established at the stage of Aquinas' arguing for God's existence. It begs the quest...
Aquinas says in many places that God is not a member of any genus. Let's take a genus in the category of quality, "the just" in the plural. According ...
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