Tag: Thomas Aquinas
Reading Suggestions for Aquinas’ Five Ways
Our perspective is supported by a rigorous and elegant metaphysical framework, which began with Plato and particularly Aristotle.
Aquinas’ Third Way: An Analogy to Moonlight
Imagine that you are an astronomer on a world with one moon. It is always night on your world, and the moon is the only body in the sky.
Irrefutable, Impeccable, Inescapable: Aquinas’ Second Way
Every grain of sand is a link in an essential causal chain.
Essence and Existence in Modern Science
St. Thomas laid the intellectual groundwork for modern natural science — the absolute distinction between existence and essence.
Essence and Existence: The Cornerstone of Thomistic Metaphysics
I can describe anything you like in whatever detail you like, but you can’t know whether it exists or not merely by its description.