Path Of Life Research Paper

A Path of Life In the discussion of choosing whose philosophy of life I am closer too, Aquinas or Descartes. I would say my life is closer to Aquinas’s for personal and philosophical reasons. For Thomas Aquinas, you could say he was guided into his faith by his father. His father helped lead him to a certain path of life. His father, planned for Thomas to achieve a position of importance in the Catholic Church (Soccio 222). Countering that statement, for myself, my parents led me to my faith. My parents took me to church every Sunday, made me go to Sunday school classes, and carved it into my brain that I needed to pray before every meal and before I went to bed. So I believe for Aquinas’s and I, you could say we were both influenced by our upbringing. Even though everyones eyes get open to other paths through out life because of certain encounters with others and their beliefs. But eventually our view points came back to what we were ultimately first were taught. …show more content…
Aquinas, has ways to justify God. He says the truth of the proposition a God exists is knowable in itself (McInerny). He also says that the essence of a God is existence (McInerny). This is how I see god from a philosophical view. God is an essence to life. God might be knowable in itself, but yet strictly unknowable to us. But without the existence of God there is no explanation to how the first cell could have been created. I feel having faith in God is something you just except because there is no exact way to prove his presence. Therefore God is irrefutable in my mind. My faith comes before my