Abstract
This essay is a discussion of Aquinas's argument existence of God as argument is found in his Summa Contra Gentiles. The aim of essay is suggest an approach Aquinas's argument that emphasizes its particular context, where context signifies not so much assumed Aristotelian physics as Aquinas's larger project of carrying out the office of a wise man, namely, to order things. Construing relevant ordering as a making sense of things—indeed of the whole of things—the argument from motion is thus seen as part of an attempt make sense of what, following Aristotle, can be called the whole of life, that whole within which any one of us must live out his or her particular life. Several ideas found in Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus are introduced in conviction that they may help at least some of us see of conclusion of Aquinas's argument, conclusion, namely, that first principle of whole of being is an unmoved mover—the strangeness of which conclusion, it is argued, is essential its significance.
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