(October 22, 2019 at 5:39 am)FlatAssembler Wrote: When reading a Croatian translation, I got the impression that Aquinas was trying to say: "At the first sight, it does seem like there is no god. However, there are at least five ways to prove using reasoning that a god exists.".
Throughout the Summa, Thomas argues by suggesting objections that people might have to his arguments and answering those objections. People in those days debated theological ideas with great strictness and care, and by the time Thomas wrote things out he generally knew what the objections would be better than anybody else.
The clue is at the beginning of the paragraph, where it says, "Objection 2."
