![]() Realism about universals, propositions, possible worlds, and purported abstract The Augustinian proof is an argument from Neo-Platonic proof is an argument from the existence of things that areĬomposite to a first cause that is absolutely simple or non-composite. The reader has to work through seventy pages or so of fairly abstract general metaphysicsīefore getting to the specific topic of what Aquinas had to say about God’sĪristotelian proof, as you might expect, is an argument from the distinctionīetween actuality and potentiality to the existence of a purely actual actualizer These background philosophical theses from the dated and mistaken scientificĬlaims Aquinas sometimes used to illustrate them, but which are not in factĮssential to them. Kinds of causal series that there are, of the structure of a material substance, ![]() ![]() For example, you need to understand hisĪccount of what change is, of how efficient causation works and the different In the arguments but actually develops and defends elsewhere. Readers of those books know, properly to understand Aquinas’s Five Ways, youįirst have to understand all the background philosophical theses he presupposes ![]() ![]() That was appropriate given the specific aims Last Superstition, I treat the question of God’s existence by way ofĮxpounding and defending Aquinas’s own arguments. ![]()
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