KURT B.

DEL ROSARIO
PHIN103

The world is full of mystery, there were things that needed to be answered but still remained
unanswered even up to now. For example, God’s Existence, nowadays there are still no valid proof that
corroborates God’s Existence. In his Summa Theologica, St. Thomas Aquinas discuss the 5 ways of God’s
Existence, the first way is the Argument of Motion, it suggests We currently live in a world, in which
things are moving, movement is caused by movers and there must be a static or unmoved person who
started the motion and that is God, the unmoved mover. The second way is the Argument of Causality,
some things in this world are caused, some things in this world are caused, anything that has cause must
be caused by someone else, and that causer should be uncaused and that is God. The third way is the
argument of contingency, imagine a world that is surrounded of all contingent being, they could either
be existing or not existing, basically, we cannot live in a contingent world because if all things are
contingent, maybe we and the world does not exist, therefore there must be a necessary being that
must exist and that is not cause to exist and that is God. The fourth way is; From degree of Perfection,
these two ways says that there are things that having a characteristic perfect, they are more or less
perfect, but they cannot be perfect absolutely, there must be a source of perfection and that is God. and
Lastly, the fifth way which is from the order of the universe. It suggests that things without intelligence
cannot work for the sake of an end unless a higher intelligence is directing them and that must be God. .
In conclusion, St. Thomas Aquinas asserts that God is the greatest and he is the reason for all the things
in this world.