Beginning of Essay
Thomas Aquinas tried to come up with a theory to prove the existence of God. Aquinas tried to prove that God exists in his first cosmological argument by using seven steps. In order to understand Aquinas’s argument you have to understand what it means to me m ....

Middle of Essay
.... to actuality, except by something in a state of actuality.” Aquinas means that the change of state requires something in the state of actuality to actualize the potential. For example, in order for a house (which is in the state of actuality), to potentially become a pile of ashes something in the actual state (like a flame), has to cause the house to move from being actually a house and potentially a pile of ashes to actually a pile or ashes. In his third step Aquinas says, “Now it is not possible that the same thing should be at once in actuality and potentiality in the same respect.” He means that something cannot be in both the ....