RE: Creationism
August 13, 2020 at 5:01 am
(This post was last modified: August 13, 2020 at 5:02 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 12, 2020 at 11:33 pm)Grandizer Wrote: Set aside the fact that Aquinas was a Christian, and regardless of his motivations, the arguments in and of themselves could be said to lead to the existence of some First Cause/Unmoved Mover/Ultimately Necessary Being/Being/Pure Act/whatever. Maybe they're still not successful arguments, but there's no inserting the Trinity God going on here anyway (even if that's what Aquinas believed in).Not a necessary being. There's no argument for the first cause being a being, there. Big part of why it fails as an argument for a god. I disagree about whether or not saint tom inserted his triune god. He absolutely did, that's exactly what you asked me to forget here at the outset....but the problem is that he inserted -any- god. It's a problem, because he didn't argue for a god.
He argued for a cat, and concluded a god.
Quote:And a cat (???), by the way, is a contingent being with potentiality and is not pure act, so this cat argument wouldn't have been a challenge for Aquinas.
I say that we all understand pure act to be a cat. Tommy couldn't answer this criticism in his own time. He knew he fucked up, too.
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