Thomas Aquinas asserts that nothing can be reduced from (this) to actuality, except by something in a state of actuality.
What is Potentiality
100
This kind of cause accounts for an entire casual series ?
What is First/ultimate cause
100
Things in the universe come to be and ______.
What is Perish
100
Aquinas states, "The ____ in any genus is the cause of all in that genus" to argue the existence of God. What is the missing word?
What is maximum
100
All things have an ____ or arrangement and work for an end.
What is order
200
The type of motion that must exist for there to be a chain of motions that follows.
What is Self-generating motion
200
In a casual series, if we do not have a cause, we do not have this thing which proceeds after it...
What is effect
200
Nothing can come from _____, so if there was nothing at some time, there would be nothing now.
What is Nothing
200
Things that are greatest in truth are greatest in what?
What is Being
200
The order of the universe cannot be explained by chance, but only by ____ and ____.
What is design and purpose
300
Whatever is moved is moved by something else. Potentiality is only moved by
What is actuality
300
This type of cause produces an effect by a casual process...?
What is efficient cause
300
If it it not the case that everything comes to be and perishes, then... (?)
What is there must be a necessary being (God).
300
For there to be degrees of being at all, there must be something which has being in the ______ degree.
What is highest
300
Design and purpose is a product of ______.
What is intelligence
400
Unless there is a first mover, there can be no _____?
What is Motions
400
In order to cause itself, a cause must exist _____ itself.
What is prior to/before
400
Since objects are countable, the objects in the universe are _____ in number.
What is finite
400
True or False: Thomas Aquinas holds that, Goodness is a moral quality; it's a function of human purpose and intention, not a "kind" of being.
What is False
400
_______ arguments are arguments from the order in the universe to the existence of God
What is Teleological
500
Aquinas is not rejecting an indefinite or an infinite series as such, the idea is that a lower element depends on a higher element as in a hierarchy, meaning that a _____ exists?
What is First Mover
500
According to Aquinas, it is impossible for efficient causes to go on to_____, since there would be no first cause.
What is infinity
500
What kind of objects in the world come into existence and pass away?
What is contingent
500
According to the argument of gradation a Being in the Highest Degree or Perfect Being exists. True or False
What is True
500
If design and purpose is a product of intelligence then what is nature directed by?