(July 16, 2019 at 1:34 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote:(July 16, 2019 at 3:33 am)Belaqua Wrote: In the Aristotelian and Thomist system, the First Cause takes no action. It is not an immaterial being.
So the first cause literally does nothing, with nothing and that's how you get a universe.
Right. (please inject as much sarcasm as you can into that)
Actually in the Thomistic system it does "do" something. It both "conceives" of it, and then "wills" it into existence.
(We now know "will" is a term which meant something to Aquinas and probably no longer means anything.)
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