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Lesson 4

Philosophical Proofs of an Intelligent Creator

Philosophical inquiry comes to the conclusion that the universe has a creator.

Lesson Vocabulary

  • Philosophy
    :
    (n.): From the Greek word philosophia, which means “love of wisdom.” It is the study of ultimate reality and its causes by human reason alone.
  • Five Ways
    :
    Five arguments developed by St. Thomas Aquinas that use human reason and observation of the created world to conclude that God exists. Also called the “five proofs for the existence of God.”
  • Potency
    :
    In metaphysics, the capacity to act or change, or a possibility a thing can be said to have.
  • Act
    :
    In metaphysics, the motion, or change, that reflects the fulfillment of a possibility in a thing.
  • First Mover
    :
    The necessary, uncaused Being, or God, who first set everything in motion.
  • Efficient Cause
    :
    In philosophy, the agent who brings a thing into being or initiates a change.
  • Teleology
    :
    The study of ends or final causes.
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