What are the “Five Ways” Thomas Aquinas argues for God’s existence?
In this second lecture of nine, we examine Thomas Aquinas’s famous arguments for God’s existence put forward in the Summa theologiae. Thomas argues that there must be an Unmoved Mover, an Uncaused First Cause, an absolutely Necessary being, a Greatest Good, and an Intelligence that gives order to nature. These Five Ways have been subject to intense debate over the centuries, and we present some of the chief arguments against the Five Ways such as that they prove polytheism rather than monotheism, that they prove at best the “God of the Philosophers” rather than the “God of Abraham,” and that the existence of evil disproves God’s existence.
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