(October 8, 2021 at 5:57 pm)DLJ Wrote:(October 7, 2021 at 9:10 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: ...
IMHO the 3W, Necessary Being, is by far the strongest but it is also the most difficult to understand - which is also to say that I could be way off myself. But it also takes us back to the profound ontological speculations of Heraclitus and Parmenides.
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I'm far from knowledgeable about Aquinas's original argument (so please be gentle with me) but I have listened to some (e.g. Islamic apologisers) who use the Necessary Being argument.
I've noticed that they equivocate between verb and noun: Being and A Being.
Did Aquinas do that too? What have I missed?
Cheers.
I say yes. Thomas would have agreed with the statement that "God's Essence is identical to His Existence." That's part of what it means to be fully in act. God is the Being that is Being-itself...the Ground of All Being.
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