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Philosophies of Creation

In this chapter the philosophies of creation with which Aquinas himself was familiar are explored. Accordingly, Aquinas’s engagement with the creationist metaphysics of the Presocratics, Plato and Aristotle, and their followers is considered. It is noted that in his engagement with these thinkers, Aquinas articulates a basic deficiency in many of them to the effect that they do not isolate the actual existence of things as a feature of them without which they would not be and thus calling on a cause for all things that in any way exist. Accordingly, many of these thinkers fail to arrive at the notion of a creator, and those who do so because they have reached a universal consideration of things in terms of their very being.