Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae | The 1st Way to Prove God's Existence | Philosophy Core Concepts
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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.
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Very interesting explanation of the first way. Greetings from a greek palamite scholar!!
Thanks!
I like this.
Forgetting about the mystery of time which is needed for change and may not exist outside of our spacetime, the idea that there was a point where there was no movement and something started it seems almost as bizarre as an infinite regress or endless cyclic reality. It's like saying all of reality had a beginning, hard to find an answer that makes sense?
Why does Thomas say that the infinite regression of the movers is impossible in essentially ordered series?
I might not be understanding something about the larger context, because I don't see why we're so easily equating a first mover with God. It doesn't seem strange or contradictory to me for an atheist to agree with this argument yet remain an atheist.