Here is our translation of the first section of Aquinas’s First Way (from the Summa Theologiae I, Q2, a3): The first and more manifest way is the argument from motion (change). It is certain, and evident to our senses, that in the world some things are in motion. Now whatever is moved is moved byContinue reading “The First Way Further Developed”
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Strictly Uncausable Things
There is a good reason for thinking that the existence of a strictly uncausable thing (the sort of thing that composes any First Cause of the Universe) would have to be atemporal, beyond the limits of time. Any time-bound entity would be the sort of thing that could change and that could conceivably even beginContinue reading “Strictly Uncausable Things”
