Aquinas’s ‘First Way’ Argument: In What Way Does it Prove God’s Existence? | Prof. Gregory Doolan
The Thomistic Institute
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The Metaphysics of Aquinas: A First Uncaused Cause
In each of these arguments that a client is offering for the existence of a god, he's going for a minimal threshold. For this being to be a first mover, it has to be unmoved. If it's unmoved, it's pure actuality with no potency to it. And by implication, you can bring us out during the Q&A, the quincy saying, a being that is entirely unmoved, pure actuality, is a being that's pure unlimited beingness. So I have a question about stage two. Maybe I heard it wrong. Did you say that causality is not infinite because then each will be a insufficient cause? What I'm saying
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