Felix asked:

St.Thomas Aquinas justified God's existence by five arguments. This can't be taken literally, there has
to be more for his thoughts and my question is; What interpretations followed other philosophers
about Aquinas arguments in his justification for the existence of God? I'm interested on critics and
other thoughts. The concept of God can be interpreted in INFINITE ways, just like Aquinas
arguments.

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Well, yes. It can be taken quite literally. The famous Five Ways appears in St. Thomas' Summa
Theologicaand you can find it there. The fact that there may be several interpretations (I doubt very
much that the number is infinite, don't you?) of these arguments in no way shows that there are not
just five. Aquinas was, of course, talking about the concept of God of traditional Christianity and
Judaism, and, again, although there may be several ways of understanding that concept, these are
not infinite either. Aquinas was simply giving arguments which he thought showed that this particular
concept had a referent-referred to something which had the features or properties included in the
concept.

There have certainly been critics of his arguments. Probably, the two most famous critics were the
English philosopher, David Hume in his Dialogues on Natural Religionand Immanuel Kant in his
Critique of Pure Reason.

Ken Stern