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This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.
This Core Concept video focuses on Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae, First Part, question 2 "On The Existence of God". This video focuses in particular on his discussion in article 3, which sets out the famous "Five Ways," each of which is a separate argument for the existence of God, conceived in some specific manner. Each of these is intended to be an a posteriori argument
The first way focuses on motion or change, and argues that God is the Prime Mover. The second way focuses on efficient causality, and argues that God is the First Cause. The third way focuses on possibility and necessity, and argues that God is Necessary Being. The fourth focuses on degrees of being, and argues that God is supreme goodness, being, and every other perfection. The fifth way, a design argument, focuses on order and governance within the world, and argues to God as the governor or orderer of all things.
In this article, we also consider a version of the Argument from Evil, and a discussion about adequacy of explanation that prefigures Occam's Razor
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