The second way
- Created by: Abigail Woosey
- Created on: 02-04-13 20:05
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- Second Way
- Nothing can be the cause of itself.
- Something has to start the ball rolling
- Every effect has a cause
- There fore there must be a first cause. This is what everyone understands to be god.
- The uncaused causer (God)
- There cannot be an infinite regress of causes.
- Leibnits, Kalam and Lane Craig supported this way.
- Rejection of infinite regress
- Aquinas proposed there had to be an uncaused cause that began all change in the universe.
- The cause cannot be taken away because effectively the effect will be taken away too. (the universe)
- Aquinas proposed there had to be an uncaused cause that began all change in the universe.
- To deny infinite regress means that there must be a being which in itself is an uncaused cause and eternal
- a being which does not depend on anything else for is existence
- Otherwise that being would have a beginning.
- a being which does not depend on anything else for is existence
- 'There is no case known in which a thing is found to be the efficient cause of itself' - aquinas
- Nothing can be the cause of itself.
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