St. Thomas's Five Ways: How to Prove God Exists w/ Dr. Edward Feser(Off-Campus Conversations)
The Thomistic Institute
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The Aristotelian to Mystic Metaphysics of God's Existence
Final cause is among the most unpopular parts of Aristotelian to mystic metaphysics in from a modern philosophical point of view it's as hard as sell as anything. If someone said well I can we can carry out like a fifth way and not not do not commit ourselves to Aristotle's understanding of final cause I would say that's ridiculous. William Paley's design argument is based on the idea of externally imposed teleology the kind that a watch has said which is why he makes use of this watchmaker analogy.
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