Thomas Aquinas · Theology

The Five Ways

Aquinas’s five arguments that the existence of God can be demonstrated by reason alone, working up from the ordinary facts of the world.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned that the Five Ways argue from features of the world up to God. Reconstruct the shared structure of the arguments, and state the strongest objection to them, in your own words.

Leads to Immanuel Kant.

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