За Петия път на Тома и възможността за една мъдра подреденост на света
Thomas Aquinas’ Fifth Path and the Possibility of a Wise Ordering in the World

Summary/Abstract: The following paper is intent on analyzing the Fifth Path of Thomas Aquinas, which is one of the five arguments, used by Thomas in the Summa Theologica, aiming to prove God’s existence. One of the main topics, which will be put forward, is the overall function of the Ways themselves, fulfilling the necessary conditions for the intellect to understand creation.The second point, which will be discussed, is the relation between the order and the understanding, and more precisely – we examine what the understanding could conclude about the wisdom of the Creator of this order. An important question that rises is about the role of wisdom in keeping the linkage between the specific and the general, the individual and the universal, i.e. between the particular entity and the integral order, under which it falls. The analysis is being put in a broader frame by discussing what follows Thomas’ writings in the following centuries, which often combine them (the writings) in contemporary philosophy with the so called argument from design whose main presuppositions will be explicated.

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