In the first proof, St. Thomas states that everything on earth moves and changes. The second proof talks about cause and effect, saying that everything is caused by something else, and something cannot be the cause of itself, and this first cause is God. In the third proof Aquinas argues that things can either exist or not exist, but they cannot last for eternity. The fourth proof is that is God is the driving force lf everything. Aquinas uses this proof to state that there is a more perfect form of everything. Therefore, there must be something that is the most good and perfect of all things, which is God. In this final proof, Aquinas refers to the ordering of things found in nature and the idea that things that lack intelligence move and tend towards a certain result.
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