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A 6 page essay that explores and discusses three themes taken from Aquinas’ “Summe Theologica.” No additional sources cited.
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Aquinas realized that his first task was to establish the existence of God as the foundation for that theology. He first proof of God draws on Aristotelian philosophy in order
to account for the observable reality of change and movement that occurs in the natural world. He writes that "For it is obvious and apparent to the sense that some
things in this would are in motion," therefore, "...it is necessary to posit a first, efficient cause, which everybody calls God" (Aquinas 104). As this indicates God for Aquinas it
first and foremost the primary cause of the Universe, the first mover and creator. Aquinas argues that due to the fact that there is movement in the universe,
the laws of causality require that there must have been an initial mover. It is patently observable that everything that happens in the world had an initiating factor, a cause.
Also observable is the fact that motion, also always has a cause that leads back through an unbroken chain of events. However, this implies an infinite regression and this is
not possible. Therefore, there has to be a first mover and that first mover is God. Additionally, Aquinas points out that the structure of the natural world involves hierarchical progressions,
as it moves form lower life forms towards more perfect higher forms that are capable of varying degrees of intelligence and rationality. Considering this, Aquinas reasons that God is at
the summit of this pyramidal structure as an absolutely perfect being. This theme of Aquinas theological perspective is appealing because Aquinas seems to be quite logical in ideas; however,
his argument is a posteriori, that is, drawn from conclusions based on observation, which means that they may or may not be correct as there is only supposition concerning causality
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