Thomas Aquinas Five Arguments For The Existence Of God

Now I begin my discussion on how greatly do St. Thomas Aquinas talks about God’s existence in his five arguments. The challenging question at hand is whether there is the well-structured argument that explains the possibility of the existence of God. There are positions that anyone would take, and this would be theism, atheism or agnosticism. Holding onto a given position will not determine the validity of the other without answering this challenging question. Since even if this position merged, there are no clear arguments that prove God is existing. Therefore, in this work am going to answer two questions: does God exist And the other is what do the five arguments by Aquinas speak concerning his metaphysics1, 2.
I will discuss how perfect do the existence of God presented by the five ways that St. Aquinas Thomas argued in his philosophical work. During his time, 1225 to 1275, some existing condemnation term their work heretical by bishops in Paris. Later the church agreed with him and made him a great philosopher and a
theologian3. In his Summa Theologica and like his colleagues, he does not know what God is but only gives us reasons of that God is. He believed that philosophy is a matter of reasoning and unlike religion which bases facts on faith by divine revelations3, 4. However, these two stakes are compatible and consistent. Metaphysics is a very important aspect of philosophical work and this convinced St. Thomas Aquinas.
To show the world exist, motion argument has been well laid to play a major role in St. Aquinas first way. Everyone is aware of the objects under motion in the entire world. It is true that for any object to move, there must be another one that set it in motion. It is not possible to put into actuality something that is under potentiality unless it comes from actuality4, 5. For example, fire is hot and wood is potentially hot. The fire must burn the wood so that it becomes hot. Therefore, you cannot find a state of potentiality and actuality in an object at the same time but present in different forms. For example, a hot substance is potentially cold but cannot be potentially hot. Hence you cannot say the mover and the moved are the same substance thus what moves were put into motion by another. When an object causes another static object to move, it implies that there must be another one that caused the mover to move and the chain forms. But this activity does not go infinity because the first mover will be left unknown and consequently, no movement since motion is caused by this particular first mover5, 6. A particle or object will move when pushed or pulled by the hand. Hence, arriving at the first mover is vital because something else moved it which was set in motion by none. And this particular motion setter is understood and believed by all of us to be God6, 7, 8.
The next way that St.
Aquinas properly uses is through analyzing efficient cause by using senses which find organized in an orderly manner. He does this very well when he says that there is no evidence for anything whose efficient cause belongs to itself as it is impossible for it to have existed before itself8, 9. We cannot access infinity because of order inefficient cause, i.e. intermediate cause is caused by a first cause which triggers an ultimate cause. The intermediate cause may be single or multiple. When you remove a cause you will withdraw an effect and thus it follows that without it there will be no any ultimate or intermediate causes. However, with immediate efficient cause, we can proceed to infinite. Here, no initial efficient cause neither the presence of ultimate impact nor intermediate efficient cause something that is merely untrue. And hence the vitality to admit initial efficiency cause which all of us call it
God9.
In this third way, St. Aquinas derives it from runs and possibility. He does perfectly to show the existence of God through the following descriptions. Nature has certain things that possibly do or do not exist. this things that exist do not have a [possibility that at one particular time would fade away, therefore, it is very possible to have a vacuum if everything was possible not to be and hence if this was a reality then nothing would be existing since there must be a starting being already existing thus it is necessary for something to exist so at to bring about existence and this necessary thing has necessity caused by something else or nothing at all10, 11. The possibility of going to infinity in necessary substances whose necessity is caused by another as proved from the efficient cause is reduced to zero. Hence we can only postulate that there is something that possesses its own necessity and does not get from another but gives it the necessity to other and for this case, everyone refers to God11.
Here, we consider how a thing is graded. We have beings that are greater in quality than others, some true, other noble and other similar. According to me, the saint does this very well. Comparing two different things in respect to how they resemble each in their varying ways one will be at maximum i.e. St. Aquinas uses the example of a something that is hotter according to resemblance to another that is hottest means that there is that which is best, most true, noblest and uttermost being. These things in greatest truth are the greatest being as documented in metaph ii. This is very agreeable and well put by this great saint since fire is the cause of all hot objects as it has maximum heat. Therefore, there ought to be a being that causes existence of all other beings, goodness and perfection. This being is God12.
In a fifth way by St. Aquinas present his premises in a perfect manner by looking at how the world governed, thing like natural objects lacks intelligence and acts endlessly as evident from constantly acting in only one way aiming at obtaining the best outcome. Hence some designs their action to reach their endpoints. We know that unless something is directed by an intelligent and knowledgeable being, this thing cannot achieve its end if it lacked that intelligence. He perfectly enriches this part by giving an example of how an arrow reaches the target point as designed by the archer. He concludes this by describing this intelligent being that designs the way other things travel to its own end as being that what we call God13.
After this finely done analysis on the ways in which this great philosopher establishes his work. It leaves me with no doubt of the existence of God. As he has created withstanding premises that form a basis that truly provides room for the existence of a beginner whose existence was not caused by anything. The existence of this being, in the beginning, caused others to exist. His necessity is not provided by anyone but he gets it to other being that he has created. Although at certain points he concludes that nothing that can create a cause that made it to exist and causes chains are not infinite in existence questions, at least one being has had an opportunity to have existed by a cause challenges each other but by the cases where he says that there are existing causes for some objects that did not trigger their own existence if this holds, then God’s existence is positive. Through his metaphysics, anyone would easily get answers to the question on existence of God. St. Thomas Aquinas’s arguments are clearly presented in manner that provide a daring evidence on the existing of a supreme being that he terms as the efficient cause and necessity. He the most intelligent designer and maximum of gradation. This Supreme Being is called God as everyone understands it.