Questions tagged [aquinas]
[St. Thomas Aquinas][1] (1225–1274), scholastic philosopher, Catholic theologian, and most famous commentator on Aristotle. [Thomism][2] is his school of thought. [1]: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aquinas [2]: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14698b.htm
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Why must objects be moved by other objects in Aquinas' First Way argument for God?
In his famous Summa Theologica, the Scholastic theologian Thomas Aquinas presents Five Ways to demonstrate the existence of God. Here is Aquinas' First Way, the argument from motion:
The first and ...
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What does Dawkins suggest is the main flaw in these three arguments from Aquinas?
Source: p 100-101, The God Delusion, By Richard Dawkins
1. The Unmoved Mover.
Nothing moves without a prior mover. This leads us to an infinite regress, from
which the only escape is God. ...
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How did Aristotle or St. Thomas resolve the liar's paradox?
How did Aristotle or St. Thomas Aquinas (such as in one of his commentaries on Aristotle) resolve the liar's paradox?
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If the universe has a beginning does that prove God exists?
It is curious to note that a eminent Physicist like Stephen Hawking thinks the universe has a beginning. This has some rather startling Religious implications
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