{"id":41,"date":"2008-03-23T00:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-23T00:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foucachon.com\/home\/2008\/03\/23\/aquinas-on-the-necessity-of-god\/"},"modified":"2008-03-23T00:33:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-23T00:33:00","slug":"aquinas-on-the-necessity-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/2008\/03\/aquinas-on-the-necessity-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Aquinas on the necessity of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>The second way is from the nature of an efficient cause. In the world of the senses we find that there is a consequence of efficient causes, but we never find something that causes itself, and it is impossible to do because it would precede itself&#8211;which is impossible&#8230;Thus it is necessary to posit some first efficient cause which all men call God. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>St. Thomas Aquinas, <em>Summa Theologiae, <\/em>part I, question 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second way is from the nature of an efficient cause. In the world of the senses we find that there is a consequence of efficient causes, but we never find something that causes itself, and it is impossible to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/2008\/03\/aquinas-on-the-necessity-of-god\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}