Can God's existence be demonstrated or proven by natural reason? and how do seminal works in philosophy and theology (e.g., those by Thomas Aquinas, Immanuel Kant, and contemporary thinkers) address this issue?

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>Can God's existence be demonstrated or proven by natural reason? and how do seminal works in philosophy and theology (e.g., those by Thomas Aquinas, Immanuel Kant, and contemporary thinkers) address this issue?

Thomas Aquinas, a towering figure in medieval Scholasticism, firmly believed that God's existence can be demonstrated by natural reason. He famously presented his arguments in the Summa Theologica (Part I, Question 2, Article 3), known as the "Five Ways" (Quinque Viae).

The Argument from Motion: Everything in motion is moved by something else. This chain of movers cannot go on infinitely, so there must be an Unmoved Mover, which is God.

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the current answer is no... just read the critique of pure reason... that is everything you need

>>24489496
God, as a being that transcends all possible experience, falls into the noumenal realm and is therefore, according to Kant, unknowable by theoretical reason, Not Good enough.

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This is it

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The Ontological Argument (e.g., Anselm, Descartes): This argument attempts to deduce God's existence from the very concept of God as a being than which nothing greater can be conceived. Kant argued that "existence" is not a real predicate or a perfection that can be added to a concept. To say something exists doesn't add to its concept; it merely posits it. Therefore, one cannot derive existence from a mere concept

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The Argument from Causality (Second Way): Everything in the universe has a cause, and there cannot be an infinite chain of causes. Therefore, there must be a first, uncaused cause, which Aquinas calls God.

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