General Education Culture and Belief 31 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Big Bang, Summa Theologica, Big Crunch
21 Mar 2016
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Aquinas"s summa theologica, lecture 1: setting: merging of aristotelian philosophy with christian dogma. Aristotle"s translations come back and aquinas engages with them. Summa theological: masterpiece; a summary of philosophy of theology. God existence is part of the very idea of god. The argument works, but it doesn"t work for us, because we cannot understand the concept of god. 2 different ways: a demonstration propter quid. God doesn"t have a cause: a demonstration quia. Infer the existence of fire from the fact that there"s smoke. Limitations: you don"t necessarily know everything about a cause if you identify it by its effects. From anselm"s a priori derivation of god"s existence, just thinking (platonist; a priori), to. 5 arguments ways for the existence of god: the argument from motion, the first step. Aquina"s notion of motion includes every kind of state. The first step focuses on things that change.
