122: Aquinas' 4th proof for God's existence, with Karlo Broussard

Today I sit down with the one and only Karlo Broussard to discuss Aquinas' argument for God's existence from degrees of being. You're gonna love it.
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[@sageseraph5035]

I've attempted to fully explain this argument and I get confused eventually between subjective and objective standards and other stuff. I put it aside for a while. I hope to get a good refresh on this argument. God Bless!

[@sageseraph5035]

Leven Pfvast I don't care if you call them "mind games." I actually think the Ontological Argument is right.

[@markstevenpandan890]

This is excellent.

[@gabrielvillasenor1691]

What is the name of the intro song?

[@tomandrews1429]

This argument never made much sense to me and I think the triangle analogy illustrates why. Yes, there can be triangles that approach different levels of perfection, in regards to being a triangle, but there can never be a triangle that physically exists that is perfect. The act of manifesting in reality makes some aspect of a theoretically perfect triangle, imperfect. So how then can you say that it is even possible for a perfect being (God) to physically exist?

[@JP-sd7di]

Well, God doesn't exist *physically.*

[@tomandrews1429]

Does God interact with the physical universe? If so, must these interactions also be perfect?

[@tomandrews1429]

Leven Pfvast Why does the character of gradation necessitate that an ultimate must exist?

[@tomandrews1429]

Pure Facts Why does that mean that God must exist?

[@abadjpyo]

@@tomandrews1429 gradations : contingent. Contingent chain of beings cannot be infinite. Thus, you arrive at an ultimate being, with no gradation...