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Explain Aquinas' argument from gradations of perfection to the existence of God.
 
  Please need help with this one Thank you.

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Summarize Aquinas' argument from a first cause for the existence of God.
 
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Answer to Question 1

- To say that something is more perfect than something else is to say that it closer approximates the perfect. One cannot determine that something falls short of a perfect standard unless that perfect standard is known. Therefore, the perfect must exist.
- There must exist a most perfect Being who is the cause of all the perfections that exist in beings containing lesser degrees of perfection
- Aquinas's fourth way to prove God's existence is his argument from the different degrees of perfection found in finite things.

Answer to Question 2

- Aquinas's second way of showing the existence of God was the nature of efficient cause.
- Aquinas believed that our understanding demands that there be a beginning point, whether it's an unchanging source of change or a first cause of all causal events.
- Since one thing must be caused by another, and these causes cannot go on infinitely, then it follows that there must be a first cause of all things.
- 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.




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Reply 2 on: Jul 14, 2018
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Great answer, keep it coming :)

 

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