According to Aquinas because we do not know what God is, the proposition is not self-evident to us but needs to be demonstrated by what? a. our feelings and intuitions. b. we cannot know God through anything. c. through higher animals such as man instead of through mindless creatures like worms. d. by things more known to us.
Advanced Placement (AP) · Middle School · Tue Nov 03 2020
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According to Aquinas, the proposition that "God exists" is not self-evident to us and needs to be demonstrated by things more known to us. Therefore, the correct option is:
d. by things more known to us.
Aquinas believed that while the existence of God may be self-evident in itself, it is not necessarily self-evident to human beings due to the limitations of human understanding. He argued that we can arrive at the knowledge of God's existence through observation of the created world and through rational demonstration, using things that are more known to us as a starting point.