6/4/2023 0 Comments Aristotle metaphysics lambdaIn doing so, I hope to establish the viability of Aquinas’ interpretation of the Aristotelian corpus on this question. In light of Thomas’ teaching that all creatures only exist because of God’s causative knowledge of them, we will initially investigate his teaching regarding God’s knowledge of creatures and then that of God’s efficient causality (doing so in both cases vis-à-vis the thought of Aristotle and the observations of modern scholars). The goal of this essay is to defend Aquinas’ reading of Aristotle. Lambda is an outline for a much more extended work in metaphysics - or more accurately, since Aristotle does not use the term metaphysics, in what he calls. According to Aquinas, however, even if the pre-Socratic materialists were forced by their ideas to absolutely reject that there is an efficient cause, Aristotle’s consideration of universal being made it possible for him to see there must be one first efficient cause namely, the one we call God. They are often willing to accept that his first mover is a final cause, but they wholly reject the view that this mover is the efficient cause we call God. Many contemporary scholars doubt Aristotle ever arrived at a notion of God’s efficient causality.
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