PHIL 2160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Segue, Unmoved Mover, Summa Theologica

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 2160
• Professor: Peter Eardley

Document Summary

Things that are self-evident are within us, the knowledge is innate. Damascene says the knowledge of god is naturally implanted within all of us. Things that are self-evident are said to be known as soon as the term is known, which is the irst rule of demonstraion. As soon as both the part and the whole of something are realized, the part can never be greater than the whole, things that exist mentally and actually are greater than just mentally. The fact that the word god produces an image means that it exists mentally and it follows that it exists actually, therefore the proposiion god exists is self- evident. Objecion 3 truth must exist -> if it doesn"t then truth doesn"t exist is true -> if something is true then truth must exist -> god is truth -> god exists. Aquinas" general answer in response to the above. Things can be self-evident in 2 ways: o o.