1) St. Thomas Aquinas and others like Aristotle put forth philosophical arguments about the existence of God, drawing on ideas about an uncaused first cause, necessary beings, and maximum perfection. 2) St. Thomas specifically outlined five ways of proving God's existence: from motion, efficient causes, possibility and necessity, gradation, and governance of things. 3) St. Thomas believed that everything in the world is contingent except God, who must be a necessary being without beginning or end in order to explain the existence of contingent beings.

1. ATHEISM
AGNOTHECISM
IDEAS POLYTHEISM
ABOUT
GOD
PANTHEISM MONOTHEISM

2. ST.
ARISTOTLE
THOMAS
IDEA

3.  St. Anselm vs. Gaunilo
 Rene Descartes vs. St. Thomas Aquinas

5. Unjustified leaf from
what is inside the Thomas
Gaunilo
mind to what s aquinas
outside the mind.
Thaught any idea w/c
we have w/c is “dear
and distinct” Rene
St. Anselm
Corresponding to the Descartes
thing existing outside the
mind.

6. It is at least possibe
that God exists since Gottfried
Whilhelm Rne
our idea of him as the Leiniz 4/yrs Descartes
infinite being contains old
no contraditions .
The human intellect
Immanuel
canot know that God Kant Leibniz
exist by manipulating died
8 yrs old
ideas.

7. 1st
-the argument in
motion
5th 2 nd
-based on -from nature of
order in the
universe
Five an efficient
cause
ways
4th 3rd
-base on the - Based on what
gradations that can exist and
exist in things what must exist

8.  Says that everything moves is moved by
something else, for nothing can move
unless it has the potentiality of acquiring
the perfection of that towards which is
move

9.  In the second way, he says also in the
world of sense we find that there is a
sequence of efficient causes, but we
never find something that cause itself,
and it is impossible to do.

10.  Contingent being
 being does not exist necessarily
 It may exist or may not exist
 It begins to exist at some point in time
 Example: Human being
 NECESSARY BEING
 A being witch always exist
 Witch never begin to be nor ever passes out of existence
 Example: God
 if necessary being does not exist therefore; contingent being
would not exist
 We are not here
 Man w/o god is nothing
 God w/o man is still a god

11. Thomas speak about the
Degree of perfection
Degree of perfection is
found in contingent beings
Maximum perfection is
found in a necessary being
w/c is God.

12.  Being one of the contingent
being we are lack of
intelligence acting for specific
end or purpose
 This is not happen by just a
chance but a plan and design

13. Supreme Supreme
Being Being
G
P O
E O
R D
F
E A
C N
D
T
I T
O R
N U
ANIMALS PLANTS T
H
ANIMALS
PLANTS
MAN
MAN

14. St. thomas
want us to
understand
that God who
not only
created us

15. necessary
being
has unlimited
or infinite pure act
knowledge and infinite
GOD
uncaused totally
cause of the uncomposed
world. and simple.
unique

16. 2 TERMS
Contingent
being Necessary
being
those everything in
does not may or has no
begins to human this world is
exist may not beginning or
exist. beings like contingent
necessary. exist. ending.
us. except one.

17. Essence potency
contingent
being
Existence act

18. -act and potency
-essence and
GOD existence
-accidents or any
composition
simplicity

19. GOD GOD
GOD GOD
GOD GOD Limited
GOD being/finite
GOD GOD
GOD
GOD
GOD GOD GOD GOD
Contingent
being

20. 1st cause/
uncaused
cause
Primary cause Efficient cause
Secondary
causes
Effect of the other
causes

22.  Does god really exist? This is the reason that encourage
us to read and to analyze what Saint Thomas want us to
understand. The proof are strong enough to agree that
God really exist. Being one of monotheism we are now
knowledgeable about the existence of God. The 5 ways
and the things we can know about God are very helpful to
us, to strengthen our faiths to the supreme being. Our
faith allowing God to control, to guide and to help us to
our daily life.
even thought we can not see God we believe because we
know that w/in in our heart and the knowledge in our
mind we can say that God really exist. Not only to create
us but also to lead us to our purpose or to our ends. We
also stand up on the side of St. Thomas Aquinas that God
is the uncaused cause of every thing we also agreed that
God is a necessary being, unique and totally uncompose in
w/c we all know that God is the only one and powerful in
this world.