An idea from Summa Theologica

All five start from what you can see: change, causes, things that might never have existed, degrees of goodness, and nature acting toward ends. Each follows a chain back to a first. The first leans on Aristotle’s physics of motion, which Newton replaced, so whether it still works is disputed.

From Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas

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