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Aquinas’s Fourth Way: How Goodness, Truth, and Being Point to God

St. Thomas Aquinas’s Quarta Via (Fourth Way) forms part of his famous Quinque Viae (Five Ways) found in his Summa Theologiæ, which collectively provide arguments for the existence of God. The Fourth Way, often summarised as, “If things are more and less good, there must be a best, and this something is God,” offers an […]

The Third Way of Aquinas: Contingency and Necessity

Leave a Comment / Saints, Theology / Veritas Catholica / November 28, 2024

Thomas Aquinas’s Third Way (Via Tertio), outlined in his Summa Theologiae, argues for the existence of God through the concepts of contingency and necessity. This argument centres on the observation that the existence of contingent beings (those that depend on external factors for their existence) requires the existence of a necessary being, which Aquinas identifies

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