Plato's Demiurge

The understanding of the difference is key to understanding Plato’s framework. The Demiurge remains the one true creator who created everything before the other gods exists. His discussion on the existence of other gods at least acknowledges mythology. Plato says “To know or tell the origin of the other divinities is beyond us.” We get more insight on the relation of man, gods and the Demiurge in this segment of text which personifies the Demiurge even more. After everything was created he addresses the gods saying,
Gods, children of gods, who are my works, and of who I am the artificer and father, my creations are indissoluble, if so I will…Wherefore, since ye are but creature, ye are not altogether immortal and indissoluble, but yet shall …show more content…
If, then, there is a constant cycle, something must always remain, acting in the same way. And if there is to be generation and destruction, there must be something else which is always acting in different ways. This must, then, act in one way in virtue of itself, and in another in virtue of something else-either of a third agent, therefore, or of the first. Now it must be in virtue of the first. For otherwise this again causes the motion both of the second agent and of the third. Therefore it is better to say ‘the first’. For it was the cause of eternal uniformity; and something else is the cause of variety, and evidently both together are the cause of eternal …show more content…
Thomas Aquinas actually utilized Aristotle's writing as a source for philosophy. His writing is an examples that we can prove God’s existence with reason alone. Aquinas’s teachings about God are hugely important for the Catholic Church. As his body of work is extensive, we will only examine the main points of his writings about God’s existence and who he is. First, the important question is whether he exists. His existence is crucial to understanding his nature. Aquinas answers that
When an effect is better known to us than its cause, from the effect we proceed to the knowledge of the cause. And from every effect the existence of its proper cause can be demonstrated, so long as its effects are better known to us…Hence the existence of God, in so far, as it is not self-evident to us, can be demonstrated from this of His effects which are known to

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