(October 22, 2019 at 3:13 am)FlatAssembler Wrote:(October 22, 2019 at 12:31 am)Belacqua Wrote: Where did he say this? Do you recall the exact words?Aquinas - Original Latin Wrote:Quod potest compleri per pauciora principia, non fit per plura. Sed videtur quod omnia quae apparent in mundo, possunt compleri per alia principia, supposito quod Deus non sit, quia ea quae sunt naturalia, reducuntur in principium quod est natura; ea vero quae sunt a proposito, reducuntur in principium quod est ratio humana vel voluntas. Nulla igitur necessitas est ponere Deum esse.Aquinas - English Translation Wrote:Further, it is superfluous to suppose that what can be accounted for by a few principles has been produced by many. But it seems that everything we see in the world can be accounted for by other principles, supposing God did not exist. For all natural things can be reduced to one principle which is nature; and all voluntary things can be reduced to one principle which is human reason, or will. Therefore there is no need to suppose God's existence.
Oh, I see where you got that.
If you try to learn about difficult subjects through snippets and sound bites you're not going to get a very good view of things. Please look at that passage in context. It is absolutely NOT the view of Thomas; it is an objection he imagines someone making. The rest of that chapter is his explanation as to why that view of things is, according to him, not true.
Why are you so careless?
