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Philosophical treatise

De aeternitate mundi

Aquinas asks whether reason can prove the world had a temporal beginning and argues that temporal beginning is known by faith.

Datierung

c. 1270

Warum es wichtig ist

It carefully distinguishes creation from temporal beginning and shows Aquinas refusing weak demonstrations.

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Wie man es liest

  1. 1Distinguish dependence in being from a first moment in time.
  2. 2Notice what Aquinas says reason can and cannot prove.
  3. 3Read it with the doctrine of creation in mind.