When thinking about the origin of an object that we use on a day to day basis, we can trace that object all the way back to the very first hands that created the pieces to make the object. For example, when thinking about a car, we can think back to the mechanics who got it to start, the machines that pieced it together, and the pieces that are made to bring the car to life. This idea is elaborated in Thomas Aquinas’ first and second proofs for the existence of God, however, his third reason looks into the fact that there is a process required to make the car and there are required pieces and labor needed to build the car. This concept is what Thomas Aquinas calls the argument from a necessary being or the argument of contingency. I think that this particular argument, although a little bit harder to understand, is far stronger than the other four arguments through its reasoning about …show more content…
Referring back to the car example, the car cannot exist or function without an engine, a wheel, gas, etc, meaning that the car is a contingent object. The term contingent refers to its lack of necessity. In other words, contingent objects require something else in order for its own existence, otherwise it would fail to exist. If an object is necessary then it is not capable of failing to exist. Most all things seems to exist contingently; many human products, such as cars or a house, would never exist if we as humans never made them. Even human beings themselves are contingent upon a mother a father for creation. This being said, Aquinas makes this claim for the existence of God by looking at the universe as a contingent object. Aquinas states that since the universe exists then according to the premise, that thing which is required for the universe to exist does exists, and he claims this to be