Summa Theologica and The Five Ways: Proofs for the Existence of God, The Cosmological Argument
Introduction and Context:Up until Aquinas in the 13th Century, the church’s (where academia existed) doctrine was neo-Platonic. That is, it followed the philosophy of Plato. Why does this matter? Recall that beginning with Plato and Aristotle, a major debate can be traced through the history of philosophy: Is knowledge accessed internally through a priori introspection […]
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