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This is a video in my new Core Concepts series, designed to provide students and lifelong learners with a brief discussion focused on a core concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.
This Core Concept video focuses on Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae, Part 1, Question 2 / "On the Existence of God". This video focuses in particular on its discussion in Article 3, which sets out the famous "Five Ways", each of which is a distinct argument for the existence of God, conceived in a specific way. Each of these elements is intended to be an a posteriori argument
The first way focuses on movement or change and holds that God is the prime mover. The second way focuses on efficient causation and holds that God is the First Cause. The third way focuses on possibility and necessity and holds that God is a necessary being. The fourth focuses on the degrees of being and holds that God is supreme goodness, being, and all other perfection. The fifth way, a design argument, focuses on order and governance in the world and argues that God is the governor or ordainor of all things.
In this article we also consider a version of the Argument from Evil and a discussion of the adequacy of the explanation that foreshadows Occam's Razor.
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