Aquinas Five Ways Argument

There are many arguments based around the origins of existence, with all of them claiming to be the correct way in which existence came about. These arguments have been disputed through logic and through faith. Out of the readings assigned in class, I will be presenting Aquinas’ Five Ways argument. In short, this claim simply gives five logical reasons that prove god’s existence, which in turn, explains the existence as a whole. Within this paper, I will invalidate Aquinas’ argument, for his reasoning is full of logical loopholes and inconsistencies. Ultimately, Aquinas believes there would have to be a mover that first put things in motion. This first Way states that an object that is in motion is put in motion by some other force, and so
In this argument, he again used the assumption that there could be no infinite regression of causes. However, if this assumption was correct, then what caused God to exist? If nothing can cause itself to exist, how was God able to cause himself? If God has been in existence from eternity, what is the problem with a universe that has been in existence from infinity? This latter assumption is equally logical but much simpler and more probable. It is logical to suppose that matter and energy have always been in existence. The universe as we know today might just be one of the many manifestations of the changes in matter and
For example one may say that of many paintings and some being more beautiful than the others. For these objects, one has a greater degree of beauty than the next. From this fact Aquinas concluded that for any given quality such as beauty and knowledge, there must be a perfect standard by which all such qualities are measured (Thatcher, Fordham University). These perfections are contained in god. In this argument, it can also be logically possible that god is the absolute perfection of evil. For instance, if there are also degrees of cruelty, then god would have to be utopia of the evil. Hence, the so-called standard of perfection can be applied to both good traits and bad traits simply because these traits have gradations or degrees of