Anthony Kenny - cosmological argument
- Created by: Abigail Woosey
- Created on: 14-04-13 19:10
View mindmap
- Anthony Kenny
- British philosopher, presents an argument that undermines Aquinas' first way relating to motion and change
- In 'The Five Ways' Kenny said that Aquinas' principle that nothing moves itself goes against the fact that people and animals move themselves
- Newton's first law of motion, in which movement can be explained by a body's own inertia from previous motion, disproves Aquinas' argument
- It is possible for objects to have uniform motion as well as being in a state of rest
- Kenny says that Newton's law 'wrecks the argument of the first way'
- It is possible for objects to have uniform motion as well as being in a state of rest
- Newton's first law of motion, in which movement can be explained by a body's own inertia from previous motion, disproves Aquinas' argument
- In 'The Five Ways' Kenny said that Aquinas' principle that nothing moves itself goes against the fact that people and animals move themselves
- Many philosophers have countered Kenny's argument by pointing out that 'motion' for Aquinas meant any kind of change of state
- A human may be at rest but still undergoing change, for example aging or change of blood pressure.
- British philosopher, presents an argument that undermines Aquinas' first way relating to motion and change
Comments
No comments have yet been made