{"id":20409,"date":"2023-05-21T01:06:14","date_gmt":"2023-05-21T01:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/what-is-aquinas-s-first-cause-argument-does-it-prove-the-existence-of-the-traditional-god-of-theism-why-or-why-not\/"},"modified":"2023-05-21T01:06:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T01:06:14","slug":"what-is-aquinas-s-first-cause-argument-does-it-prove-the-existence-of-the-traditional-god-of-theism-why-or-why-not","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/what-is-aquinas-s-first-cause-argument-does-it-prove-the-existence-of-the-traditional-god-of-theism-why-or-why-not\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Aquinas&#8217; s first-cause argument? Does it prove the existence of the traditional God of theism? Why or why not?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; font-size: 19.200000762939453px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Read the assigned reading from the chapter. Then<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">choose ONE<\/strong><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span>of the questions below to answer. Answer the question you chose in a response that is a<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">minimum of 1-2 paragraphs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px 0px; font-size: 19.200000762939453px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Be sure to explain your answers and give reasons for your views. You should<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">cite the textbook<\/strong><span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span>and use brief quotations and summaries from the textbook in your response.<span style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"font-weight: bold; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">Do NOT use any other sources besides the textbook<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 25px; font-size: 19.200000762939453px; cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">\n<li style=\"cursor: auto; color: inherit;\">What is Aquinas&#8217; s first-cause argument? Does it prove the existence of the traditional God of theism? Why or why not?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read the assigned reading from the chapter. Then&nbsp;choose ONE&nbsp;of the questions below to answer. Answer the question you chose in a response that is a&nbsp;minimum of 1-2 paragraphs. Be sure to explain your answers and give reasons for your views. You should&nbsp;cite the textbook&nbsp;and use brief quotations and summaries from the textbook in your response.&nbsp;Do [&hellip;]<\/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\/20409"}],"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=20409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/20409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=20409"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=20409"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=20409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}