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While the fifth way is sometimes confused with an argument based on order and design and the need for a supreme designer, Thomas's text makes it clear that he really has in mind an argument based on final causality in nature.
https://books.google.com/books?id=TAvhcCGg7SUC&pg=PA480
This is most obvious in the case of the fifth way, which clearly depends on the notion of final causality.
https://books.google.com/books?id=drOOAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA36http://www.hprweb.com/2015/02/reclaiming-the-fifth-way/
... substances with natures always act for ends or purposes, what St. Thomas calls a final cause. We moderns who stand in the wake of a four-centuries old program to expunge the notion of formal and final causality from our conception of the natural world are likely uncomfortable with St. Thomas's insistence on the operation of purpose in nature.
https://www.catholicculture.org/cult...fm?recnum=8252
The Fifth Way, as often remarked, depends on final causality, explanation in terms of an end, of what is the point of things.
http://ftp.colloquium.co.uk/viae5.htmhttp://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/...36890#abstracthttp://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/1...bfr.12061/full
https://books.google.com/books?id=TAvhcCGg7SUC&pg=PA480
This is most obvious in the case of the fifth way, which clearly depends on the notion of final causality.
https://books.google.com/books?id=drOOAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA36http://www.hprweb.com/2015/02/reclaiming-the-fifth-way/
... substances with natures always act for ends or purposes, what St. Thomas calls a final cause. We moderns who stand in the wake of a four-centuries old program to expunge the notion of formal and final causality from our conception of the natural world are likely uncomfortable with St. Thomas's insistence on the operation of purpose in nature.
https://www.catholicculture.org/cult...fm?recnum=8252
The Fifth Way, as often remarked, depends on final causality, explanation in terms of an end, of what is the point of things.
http://ftp.colloquium.co.uk/viae5.htmhttp://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/...36890#abstracthttp://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/1...bfr.12061/full
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