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Episode 19 – The Fifth Way | Fr. Steven Brock

Aquinas 101 - Course 2: Introduction to Thomistic Philosophy

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Thomas holds that no science proves the existence of its own subject matter. He says a fifth way is gathered from the government of things. To govern is explains elsewhere, it means to direct something's activity to a goal. So I'm going to talk about the fifth way, relying on the physics passage and then kind of bring out some things not so much about the divine goodness but mostly about the divine intellect.

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