Nature & nature's God: a philosophical and scientific defense of aquinas's unmoved mover argument
"Aquinas' first proof for God's existence is usually interpreted as a metaphysical argument immune to any objections coming from empirical science. Connections to Aquinas' own historical understanding of physics and cosmology are ignored or downplayed. Nature and Nature's Go...
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| Summary: | "Aquinas' first proof for God's existence is usually interpreted as a metaphysical argument immune to any objections coming from empirical science. Connections to Aquinas' own historical understanding of physics and cosmology are ignored or downplayed. Nature and Nature's God proposes a natural philosophical interpretation of Aquinas' argument more sensitive to the broader context of Aquinas' work and yielding a more historically accurate account of the argument. Paradoxically, the book also shows that, on such an interpretation, Aquinas' argument is not only consistent with modern science, but actually confirmed by the history of science, from classical mechanics through 19th century thermodynamics to contemporary cosmology. The first part of the book considers Aquinas' argument in its historical context, exploring the key principles that everything in motion is moved by something else and that an infinite regress of causes is impossible. |
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| adam_text | Contents Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations xi Introduction I PART I. AQUINAS’S FIRST WAY IN ITS HISTORICAL CONTEXT I. The Mover Principle 19 2. The Impossibility of Infinite Regress 47 3. The First Way: A Modest Interpretation 81 4. An Eternal Mover for a (Potentially) Eternal Motion: Completing the Argument with G2 5. The Living God: Uniting the First and Fifth Ways 114 141 PART II. DEFENDING AQUINAS’S ARGUMENT TODAY 6. Classical Mechanics: Assessing the Motion Proof 185 7. Thermodynamics and the Motion Proof 223 8. Entropy, Information, and Fine-Tuning: One Living God 262 Conclusion: A Perennially Relevant Proof 284 Bibliography 284 Index 301
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Contents Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations xi Introduction I PART I. AQUINAS’S FIRST WAY IN ITS HISTORICAL CONTEXT I. The Mover Principle 19 2. The Impossibility of Infinite Regress 47 3. The First Way: A Modest Interpretation 81 4. An Eternal Mover for a (Potentially) Eternal Motion: Completing the Argument with G2 5. The Living God: Uniting the First and Fifth Ways 114 141 PART II. DEFENDING AQUINAS’S ARGUMENT TODAY 6. Classical Mechanics: Assessing the Motion Proof 185 7. Thermodynamics and the Motion Proof 223 8. Entropy, Information, and Fine-Tuning: One Living God 262 Conclusion: A Perennially Relevant Proof 284 Bibliography 284 Index 301 |
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