PHIL 008 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Cosmological Argument, Moe Williams, Four Causes
29 Oct 2020
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Aquinas offers five ways" (quinque viae) of demonstrating the existence of. They are patterns for thinking based on observation. Aquinas was a man of religious faith. He also strongly defended the role of philosophy and the use of reason at a time when it was somewhat controversial to do so. Aquinas was also passionate about science writing commentaries on. Meteorology, on the heavens (astronomy), on generation and corruption. He also wrote his own the principles of nature and a pioneering work on the. 5) (argument from the apparent guidedness of nature) Thomas aquinas - 1st way - argument from motion. 1) when we look at the world we can see that things are in a process of change, of movement from potentiality to actuality. 2) everything that is in a state change or movement must be moved to change by another thing.
