The Cosmological Argument of Aquinas
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- Created on: 15-05-17 10:12
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- The Cosmological Argument
- Main Concepts
- Cosmos = the universe
- Inductive = Based on evidence to reach a conclusion
- A Posteriori = Experiences
- First Premise = The unmoved mover
- Premise One = Everything that moves needs a force to act upon it
- Premise Two = Nothing can put itself into motion
- God is the unmoved Mover who set everything in motion
- Aquinas
- God would be bored by the universe
- Movement needs a mover
- God did not create or sustain the universe
- God is supremely perfect
- Second Premise = The uncaused causer
- Premise One = Nothing can be the cause of itself
- Premise Two = There must have been a cause external to the universe
- Premise Three = The external cause must have began the whole chain of events
- The external cause is God
- Third Premise = Contingency and Necessity
- Contingent beings rely on what made them and what sustains them
- God is a necessary being, external to the universe but has the universe rely on them
- Necessary beings rely on nothing, but have contingent beings that rely on them
- FOR
- The Kalam Argument
- There must have been a time when nothing existed
- Infinity is a mathematical concept, not applicable to reality
- William Craig
- If the universe was infinite nothing would exist now
- You cannot add to an infinite amount
- Leibniz
- Even if it is infinite we still need a reason as to why it exists
- Everything needs sufficient reason
- The Kalam Argument
- AGAINST
- Russell
- Fallacy of composition
- Trying to use everyday language to explain God
- The Big Bang Theory
- Hume
- Why does god have to be necessary?
- God could have been created by something else?
- Russell
- STRENGTHS/ WEAKNESS
- STRENGTHS
- Everyone has experiences of cause and effect
- Everything needs something to act on it to move
- Satisfies the human need for a cause to the universe
- WEAKNESS
- Using human finite reasoning to explain God
- Humans are finite trying to explain the infinite
- Limited concept of god
- STRENGTHS
- Main Concepts
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