CONTENT - Aquinas' Design Argument

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Aquinas’ 5th Way

  • In order to prove God, Aquinas believes we can look at the universe and its design and purpose

  • We can observe that things in the universe that lack knowledge act with some sort of purpose

  • This purpose is not accidental but is something that is built-in and designed

  • Anything that lacks knowledge needs something with knowledge to guide it

  • From this, we can assume that there is some sort of higher power that is giving purpose to all natural things

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Aquinas’ 5th Way: God

  • the world is governed by God is who is the guiding force that makes things achieve their purpose deliberately

  • natural bodies are all things of less intelligence than God

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Analogy of an Archer and an Arrow

  • The goal of an arrow is to reach a target but the arrow can obviously not do this on its own

  • The arrow needs to be guided by something, an archer which guides to it's end goal, the target.

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Archer and Arrow: analysis

  • God is the archer

  • Natural bodies are the arrow

  • God guides us to our end goal/ telos