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Quinque Viae
Quinque Viae (Lat., Five Ways). Five classical arguments pointing to the existence of God, summarized by Aquinas at the opening of the Summa Theologica:
The first way is the argument from motion [which requires a first Mover] … The second is from the nature of efficient cause [the chain of causation requires an uncaused Cause] … The third way is taken from possibility and necessity [roughly, ‘why there is something rather than nothing’ requires a necessary being] … The fourth way is taken from the gradation to be found in things [comparisons, e.g. ‘hotter’, relate to a perfect standard, ‘hottest’, so overall to God as the cause of perfection] … The fifth way is taken from the governance of the world [that things are evidently designed to an end, requiring a Designer]. (ST I, qu. 2, art. 3). The first four are related to the Cosmological Argument, the fourth remotely to the Ontological Argument, the fifth to the Teleological Argument. |
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JOHN BOWKER. "Quinque Viae." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN BOWKER. "Quinque Viae." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O101-QuinqueViae.html JOHN BOWKER. "Quinque Viae." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. 1997. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O101-QuinqueViae.html |
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Quinque Viae
Quinque Viae. The five ‘ways’ or arguments by which St Thomas Aquinas sought to prove the existence of God from the effects of His Being which are known to us, namely (1) that change implies an unchanging changer; (2) that a sequence of efficient causes, and their effects, such as we find in the world, implies an uncaused first cause; (3) that the existence of things able to be generated and to perish implies the existence of what is not generable and perishable (i.e. ‘necessary’) and that the existence of what is necessary ultimately implies the existence of something whose existence derives from nothing but itself; (4) that the comparisons we make (more or less ‘true’, ‘noble’, etc.) imply a standard of comparison which is in itself perfect in all these qualities; (5) that the fulfilment by inanimate or unintelligible objects of an end to which they invariably tend implies a purpose or intelligence operative in nature.
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E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Quinque Viae." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Quinque Viae." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O95-QuinqueViae.html E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Quinque Viae." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O95-QuinqueViae.html |
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