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Episode 14 – Introduction to Metaphysics - Part Two- Transcendentals and the Existence of God | Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P.

Aquinas 101 - Course 2: Introduction to Thomistic Philosophy

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Aquinas's Arguments for the Existence of God

Aquinas thinks that all valid arguments for the existence of God are like this, a posteriori in nature. He is somewhere between Descartes and Richard Swinburne who think these arguments are merely conjectural or probabilistic. The argument from form matter composition and the potency of movement appeals to the capacity of one thing to be changed or altered by another ontologically.

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