Edexcel A2 Unit 4: Implications — Philosophy of religion
Westphal’s purpose is to show how the state of modern philosophy has emerged and what the new issues might be. Scholastic philosophy of the Middle Ages was confident that it was possible to talk meaningfully of the nature of God, his existence and man’s relationship to him. Aquinas, for example, employs both reason and faith to arrive at God’s existence — faith in as much as an initial premise is required that there might be a God, reason to establish logically the possibility. Thus, we might ask whether there is an Infinite Being (just as in algebraic calculation we might say ‘let x = 6’) and then proceed as to whether the finite or contingent nature of the world bespeaks this possibility.
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