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St. Thomas's Five Ways: How to Prove God Exists w/ Dr. Edward Feser(Off-Campus Conversations)

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The Four Ways to Aristotle's Fifth Way

Thomas Tack: I don't think Aquinas' five ways all work but in fact they all work. He says once you understand Aristotelian to mysti- to mysti - metaphysics in detail that the five ways should all be compelling arguments. But with some of them there's just too much heavy lifting in the way of general metaphysics, he adds. Thomas Tack: The first way is most useful for sort of getting people who aren't already initiated into Aristotellian Semistic philosophy to see their powerful arguments for the existence of God.

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