Cosmological arguement - David Hume
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- Created on: 04-04-13 12:21
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- David Hume
- All knowledge and ideas can be reduced to some experience
- Humans think they know a great deal more about the external world than is warrented
- Humans allow their imagination to make a connection between cause and effect
- Aquinas observed cause and effect around him, he was wrong in making this connection as Hume argues they are two completely separate events.
- It is a habbit of the mind that is making this connection
- it is not therefore proof for god causing the universe to exist.
- It is a habbit of the mind that is making this connection
- Aquinas observed cause and effect around him, he was wrong in making this connection as Hume argues they are two completely separate events.
- Humans allow their imagination to make a connection between cause and effect
- Humans think they know a great deal more about the external world than is warrented
- in 'Dialogues concerning religion' Hume asks why we must conclude that the universe had a beginning
- "how can anything that exists from eternity have a cause?"
- even if the universe did begin, it does not mean anything caused it to come into existance
- "how can anything that exists from eternity have a cause?"
- As we have no direct experience of the creation of universes, we can not speak meaningfully of the universe
- He did not believe that there was either sufficient evidence to prove the cause of the universe or even that it was caused
- Hume is criticising the idea of causation which is focused on way 2
- As an empiricist he cannot speculate about the beginning of the universe
- why cant there be infinite regress?
- As an empiricist he cannot speculate about the beginning of the universe
- All knowledge and ideas can be reduced to some experience
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