
Episode 19 – The Fifth Way | Fr. Steven Brock
Aquinas 101 - Course 2: Introduction to Thomistic Philosophy
The Conservation of the Kind
Every natural thing tends toward what is good and best for the thing itself, according to its own nature. How things usually act is usually better for them than any unusual way in which they are ever observed to act. Thomas isn't talking only about living bodies; he thinks his claim applies even to inanimate bodies.
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