Persona Y Sociedad

Nombre: Tanya Cuevas García

Fecha: May 28th 2013

Materia y Grupo: Persona y Sociedad 13:00

Profesor: Dr. Francisco J. Romero Carrasquillo

Intelligent Director

In this essay I will use the Scholastic Method to refute an argument that says unintelligent bodies do not act towards an end.

Thesis: “Unintelligent bodies do not act towards an end.”

Argument:

Mayor: Natural bodies act towards an end.

Minor: All natural bodies are intelligent.

Conclusion: Therefore unintelligent bodies cannot act towards an end.

Refutation:

I distinguish the minor: I deny that all natural bodies are intelligent. Explanation: Just as Aquinas Five Ways describe, some things that lack cognition, namely natural bodies, always or commonly act in the same way to obtain the best result. These lacking cognition bodies are still described as natural bodies because being intelligent or unintelligent does not take away the fact that they are indeed natural bodies. Being an unintelligent body does not mean that it does not move towards an end, it just means that there is an intelligent director behind it moving it towards it, like an arrow being shot to its mark by an archer. I concede the mayor and deny the minor: I concede that indeed, all natural bodies act towards an end, but deny that all natural bodies are intelligent.

And I deny the conclusion.

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