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Aquinas’s ‘First Way’ Argument: In What Way Does it Prove God’s Existence? | Prof. Gregory Doolan

Mar 24, 2023
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 3min
2
How to Prove the Existence of God
02:40 • 2min
3
The Problem With Knowing What God Is
05:07 • 3min
4
Aquinas' Arguments for the Existence of God
07:56 • 3min
5
Aquinas' Arguments for the Existence of God
10:54 • 3min
6
The First-Way Argument
14:23 • 2min
7
Aristotle's Proof of God's Existence
16:08 • 3min
8
The First Stage of Aquinas
18:44 • 3min
9
Aquinas's Virtual Reality
21:32 • 3min
10
Aristotle's Prime Mover Argument in the Physics
24:17 • 4min
11
The Language of Impossibility
28:10 • 2min
12
The Impossibility of Being Both in Potency and in Act
30:25 • 3min
13
The Principle of Non-Contradiction
33:09 • 3min
14
The Contradiction in the Claim That There Could Be an Infinite Series of Causes
36:11 • 2min
15
The Differences Between Parachidense Causal Series and Parisé Causality
38:39 • 3min
16
Aristotle's Theory of the First Moment in Time
41:33 • 3min
17
The Parasite Causal Series
44:11 • 3min
18
The Infinite Cascade
46:45 • 3min
19
The Principle of Non-Contradiction
49:24 • 3min
20
The Metaphysics of Aquinas: A First Uncaused Cause
52:48 • 4min
21
Aquinas' Metaphysics of Existence
56:26 • 5min
22
The Power of Choice
01:00:56 • 2min
23
The Hypostatic Union
01:03:02 • 5min
24
Aristotle's Argument for a Prime Mover
01:07:57 • 4min
25
The Impossible Argument
01:11:57 • 2min