According to Aquinas, Why Can't Something Be Its Own Efficient

question 141

Multiple Choice

According to Aquinas, why can't something be its own efficient cause?

• A) Because then there would be no first efficient cause
• B) Because series of causes can't back to infinity
• C) Because then it would be prior to itself, which is impossible
• D) None of the above

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