PHIL 1000 Chapter : 5 WAYS And WHY GOD ALLOWS EVIL
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St. thomas aquinas: born in 1225, dominican, most famous work is the summa theologica (one of most important things ever written, philosophy about everything, main project was the christianize xian aristotle, now considered doctor of catholic church. Five ways to prove the existence of god (the five ways) quinque viae . First way: argument from motion/change: some things in the world are changed, whatever is moved was moved by another, actuality to move, potentiality to be moved, fire cannot be actual and potential at the same time (example). Something cannot move itself: something cannot be mover and moved, there must be a causal chain. If there is not a first mover nothing could be moving at all ever: must be first mover that was not moved by anything before it an unmoved mover======= god. Argument to it : could be something evil, particle during big bang. Is not possible for something to cause itself.
