st Thomas Aquinasproofs of gods existance
St. Thomas Aquinas: Proofs of God's existence.Aquinas says that God's essence (feeling) is his existence. That there is no Actual need for proof of his existence. Before he actually developed his Proofs Aquinas tried to show that such proofs are not useless, since the Idea of God's existence is not, a probable idea-"that God exists." Because Of this fact he states that every man has a "natural knowledge" (that which he is born with.) of God such as : he has some ideas of happiness (since he wants/ desires it.) but he might think that happiness is made up of sexual pleasure or in the possession of wealth.Aquinas is trying to prove that the true happiness can only be found in God (because he truly believed in Gods existence due to the society he was in.). He states that a man who truly believes that there is no truth asserts that it is true that there is no truth, but this does not matter if the man knows primal truth- a source of God.This is St. Thomas's argument
The fourth proof is from Aristotle's observations in metaphysics. So, Aquinas says that the proposition God exists to all is self evident in since the subject and the predicate are the same. All of these things started from degrees of perfection, of goodness. He says that a proposition is self - evident when the predicate is part of the subject : For example man is an animal since animal is part if the meaning man. Therefore natural events/effects are explained by natural causes, while other effects are referred to human reason and will. Aquinas says that everything in the world that can be observed can be accounted for by other principals, on the belief that there is no such thing as God. If everyone knows the essence of the subject and the predicate the proposition will be self-evident to everyone just like God. He stated that God's existence cannot be proven but the idea and essence of God can be. Because we are sure that something's in this world move. Aquinas says that the existence of God is self - evident and that self-evident is used in two senses; in one it is self-evident in itself, but not to us; the other is self-evident and to us. He would probably have told me that there is no need for the explanation for Gods existence. Thomas Aquinas was trying to prove the existence of God. So this makes one question if God were to have existed there would be no evil in this world encountered. St Thomas Aquinas would defiantly not have agreed with my views.
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