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All right, well, good evening.

I wanted to give some consolation to Dr. Osborne this evening because I too have a handout.

And it's very clear that I'm not old not because

of my age but because I'm reading my talk from a device so now I have been entrusted this

evening with lecturing on the fourth way of St. Thomas's famous five mine is an unenviable task

frankly since this is probably the argument most

distasteful to modern sensibilities and resistant to a friendly contemporary analysis.

In fact, Father Brent last night, or this morning, said to me, you're lecturing on the fourth way, right?

That's the one we usually skip. And to that end,

when I was reviewing my lectures on the five ways, I realized that my fourth way discussion was

rather hand-wavy, so I had to update it for this time. But despite the fact that this particular argument seems to be distasteful, and it's distasteful in part because it seems platonic, after all, St. Thomas begins by saying, well, this is a proof from grades of being, which sounds awfully mystical and platonic. But yet, there is something beautiful to it, and something fundamentally aristotelian,

as we will see. And, you know, Father Lawrence DeWan, who has been mentioned several times already,

actually thinks that this is one of his, says that this is one of his favorites. He says that

that the fourth and the fifth ways

are the most satisfying and that St. Thomas concludes

with we in each of these in both the fourth and the fifth way.

For he says this we call God, not just that this everybody calls God, but this we call God not just that this everybody calls God but this we call God

the God presented by the fourth way is something which for all beings is the cause of being and

goodness and every perfection we are surely presented with a being described as maximally a being, which is a creative source.

So, says Father Duan.

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