Cosmological Argument
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- Cosmological Argument
- Aquinas
- 1st Way: Motion
- Everything has the potential to change
- PRIME MOVER
- Everything has the potential to change
- 2nd Way: Causation
- Cause and effect is seen in the natural world. Whatever happens is caused by something else (illogical to say that something has caused itself)
- There needs to be a first cause - God
- Cause and effect is seen in the natural world. Whatever happens is caused by something else (illogical to say that something has caused itself)
- 3rd Way: A necessary being
- Nothing in our world is permanent - everything is contingent
- It is possible that there was a time when nothing existed
- There has to be something that is necessary that allowed contingent to exist
- It is possible that there was a time when nothing existed
- Nothing in our world is permanent - everything is contingent
- 1st Way: Motion
- Copleston
- Step 1: There are least some beings in the world that do not contain in themselves the reason for their existence
- Step 2: The things in the world are contingent. there is no world that is distinct from these objects
- Step 3: The explanation for the world must have an explanation that is external
- Step 4: The reason must ultimately be an existent being that contains within itself the reason for its own existence
- Step 3: The explanation for the world must have an explanation that is external
- Step 2: The things in the world are contingent. there is no world that is distinct from these objects
- Step 1: There are least some beings in the world that do not contain in themselves the reason for their existence
- Russell's Criticisms
- Principle Of Sufficient Reason
- What is a sufficient reason for something to cause something else to happen GOD?
- Rejects that idea of a necessary being
- Necessary cannot be applied to all things as an explanation for causes so the idea of a necessary being is rejected
- Principle Of Sufficient Reason
- Hume's Criticisms
- Rejects the idea of moving from individual causes to a cause for everything in the world
- Not everything needs to have a cause e.g. universe (does it need to have an explanation)
- Rejects the idea of a Crhistian God as a necessary being
- The cosmological argument doesn't tell anything about God's attributes
- Hume suggested that the cause of the universe is a committee of Gods
- The cosmological argument doesn't tell anything about God's attributes
- Rejects the idea of moving from individual causes to a cause for everything in the world
- Aquinas
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