Cosmological Argument
Thomas Aquinas classified and reworked five theories to argue the existence of God, however, only the first three apply to "The Cosmological Argument". In his writings he refuted the claim that, "…the name God means that He is infinite goodness. If, therefore, God existed, there would be no evil discoverable; but there is evil in the world. Therefore God does not exist." Thomas Aquinas responded, "For motion is nothing else than the reduction of something from potentially to actuality. But nothing can be reduced from potentiality to actuality, except by something in a state of actuality…Therefore, it is necessary to arrive at a first mover, moved by no other; and this everyone understands to be God". Thomas Aquinas argues that movement cannot have an infinite regress because without a first cause, intermediate causes would be impossible. "In a wo
rld of sensible things we find there is an order of efficient causes. There is no case known (neither is it, indeed, possible) in which a thing is found to be the efficient cause of itself; for so it would be prior to itself, which is impossible. Now in efficient causes it is not possible to go on to infinity, because in all efficient causes following in order, the first is the cause of the intermediate cause, and the intermediate is the cause of the ultimate cause, whether the intermediate cause be several, or only one." Through all of these arguments St. Thomas Aquinas was trying to prove the existence of God. He was a very religious man who followed Aristotle's ways. Aquinas believed that there was no reason to question Gods existence because it was obvious. Aquinas says that it is possible to prove that God exists. The first way comes from motion.
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