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The Aquinate Proofs of the Existence of God

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

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The proofs offered by St. Thomas of the existence of God suggest a problem. The day is past when the scholasticism of the Middle Ages was scornfully—often ignorantly—dismissed. The intellectual strength of a thinker such as St. Thomas is amply recognized.

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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1932

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page 301 note 1 For this definition I am indebted to my friend Mr. A. E. Blumberg.

page 301 note 2 Cf. Russell, Whitehead, Wittgenstein.

page 301 note 3 Cf. the God of Spinoza.

page 301 note 4 Cf. Einstein, Geometrie und Erfahrung, etc., in Relitivitatstheorie.

page 301 note 5 Analysis of Mind, p. 96.

page 302 note 1 Cf. the pure rationality of mathematics, the pure empiricism of physics, and the mixed (therefore empirical) method of history.

page 303 note 1 Cf. Burtt, E. A., The Metaphysics of Sir Isaac Newton, p. 13Google Scholar. Russell, B., Introduction à la philosophie mathématique, p. 8Google Scholar. Whitehead, A. N., Science and the Modern World, chap, iii, p. 67.Google Scholar

page 304 note 1 Cf. Whitehead, , op. cit., chap, i, p. 3.Google Scholar

page 305 note 1 Sum. Theol., I. II. 2.

page 305 note 2 Ibid., I. II. 3.

page 306 note 1 Analysis of Mind, pp. 93–4.

page 306 note 2 Ibid., p. 98.

page 306 note 3 Sum. Theol., I. II. 3, and cf. Sum. C. Gen., XIII. The whole of St. Thomas's argument should be read.

page 307 note 1 “There is certainly no logical reason against infinite collections.” Russell, , Int. Math. Phil., p. 76.Google Scholar

page 307 note 2 Metaphysics of Sir Isaac Newton, p. 13.

page 308 note 1 Sum. Theol., I, II. 3.

page 308 note 2 Ibid.

page 308 note 3 Cf. Ibid., I. II. 1, and Russell, Int. Math. Phil., p. 204.

page 310 note 1 Sum. Theol., I. II. 3.

page 310 note 2 Burtt, E. A., Metaphysics of Sir Isaac Newton: “Science is the exact mathematical formulation of the processes of the natural world,” p. 223.Google Scholar Note: mathematical, therefore not causal sequences.

page 310 note 3 Cf., however, Whitehead’s “Principle of Concretion” in Science and the Modern World, and Alexander’s Space, Time and Deity.