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Self-Quiz 2.1
Thomas Aquinas: The Five Ways
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According to Aquinas, an infinite regress of causes is
finite.
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possible.
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impossible.
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necessary.
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According to Aquinas, the first efficient cause of everything is
the universe.
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God.
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nature.
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an infinite series.
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If
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things are capable of not existing, according to Aquinas, there was a time when
nothing existed in the universe.
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nothing begat something in the universe.
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some things were infinite.
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some things were beyond time.
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Aquinas believes that things in the universe that move toward a goal must be
without direction.
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without some intelligence to guide them.
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unguided
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guided by some intelligence.
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