{"id":15919,"date":"2023-04-20T03:22:20","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T03:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/the-five-ways-aquinas-provides-five-different-arguments-for-the-existence-of-god-the-first-way\/"},"modified":"2023-04-20T03:22:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T03:22:20","slug":"the-five-ways-aquinas-provides-five-different-arguments-for-the-existence-of-god-the-first-way","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/the-five-ways-aquinas-provides-five-different-arguments-for-the-existence-of-god-the-first-way\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Five Ways,\u201d Aquinas provides five different arguments for the existence of God. The \u201cFirst Way\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

In \u201cThe Five Ways,\u201d Aquinas provides five different arguments for the existence of God. The \u201cFirst Way\u201d is based upon claims about motion and change. In your explanation provide an account of the \u201cFirst Way\u201d that demonstrates your understanding and, in your analysis section, criticize the argument Aquinas makes. Some questions to consider: Aquinas uses the concepts of \u201cactuality\u201d and \u201cpotentiality.\u201d What does these concepts mean? How are potentiality and actuality related to motion and change? Why can\u2019t something produce motion if that thing is not \u201cactual\u201d? Why can\u2019t something cause itself to move? Why can\u2019t there be an infinity of movers? What must there be a \u201cfirst mover\u201d? Is the \u201cfirst mover\u201d God?<\/p>\n

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[Entire paper must be at least 600 words]<\/div>\n
1. Explanation<\/div>\n
Your explanation of the relevant argument, or arguments, is contained in this section.<\/div>\n
This section must have at least 200 words.<\/div>\n
2. Analysis<\/div>\n
Your criticism, or philosophical analysis, of the argument, is contained in this section.<\/div>\n
This section must have at least 200 words.<\/div>\n
3. Bibliography<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In \u201cThe Five Ways,\u201d Aquinas provides five different arguments for the existence of God. The \u201cFirst Way\u201d is based upon claims about motion and change. In your explanation provide an account of the \u201cFirst Way\u201d that demonstrates your understanding and, in your analysis section, criticize the argument Aquinas makes. Some questions to consider: Aquinas uses […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[702],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/15919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/15919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=15919"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=15919"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=15919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}