Moral argument for God's existence

• Who devised the argument?

  St Thomas Aquinas
• What are the premises and conclusion?

  • P1: It is evident that everything exists in varying degress of goodness: either better or worse
  • P2: There cannot be an infinite regress of perfection, There must be a source that possesses this goodness in a perfect state
  • P3: The being that possesses goodness in the perfect state must be God
• What does the argument not draw support from?

  • It does not argue God's existence from the experience of morality, but the experience and observation of goodness