Five Ways (Aquinas)
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The Quinque viæ (Latin for "Five Ways") (sometimes called "five proofs") are five logical arguments for the existence of God summarized by the 13th-century Catholic philosopher and theologian Thomas Aquinas in his book Summa Theologica. They are:
- the argument from "first mover";
- the argument from universal causation;
- the argument from contingency;
- the argument from degree;
- the argument from final cause or ends ("teleological argument").
Aquinas expands the first of these – God as the "unmoved mover" – in his Summa Contra Gentiles.[1]