Aquinas' Arguments for the Existence of God

Aquinas' philosophy of the real distinction of existence and essence in things allows us to account for these three features of the world in a realistic way. Everything has existence, but nothing is merely identical with being as such. Instead, being is contracted or limited by the particular nature that exists. The act of existence we find in each individual thing makes it like all other existing things, but makes it distinct from all other existingThings. Now we turn in the last part of the lecture to arguments for transcendent first cause, God.