Aquinas' five ways
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- Created on: 15-02-17 18:24
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- Aquinas' cosmological argument in five ways
- Aquinas based his argument on two things
- The universe exists
- There must be a reason why
- Dawkins disagrees with this because he doesn't think the universe needs an explanation of God, it just is
- First way (the unmoved mover)
- Everything is in change and motion (hot, cold, evaporation)
- Must be something that set it in motion
- First mover (unmoved mover) sets everything into motion in order for cause and efffect to happen
- Everything is in change and motion (hot, cold, evaporation)
- Second Way (the uncaused causer)
- Every effect has a cause
- Must be a 'first cause' which we call God
- Efficient cause
- Makes something happen
- Efficient cause
- Must be a 'first cause' which we call God
- Every effect has a cause
- Third Way (contingency)
- The world consists of contingent beings
- Dependent on something for its existence
- We are dependent on our parents for our existence
- Things are contingent in two ways
- Depend on something having brought them into existence
- Depend on outside factors
- for the continuation of their exitence
- (eg, plants depend on the light from the sun)
- for the continuation of their exitence
- Without God and the contingency, we would cease to exist
- The world consists of contingent beings
- Aquinas based his argument on two things
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