The Cosmological Argument
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- Thomas Aquinas
- The Cosmological Argument
- Explanation In its form today
- Everything can exist and not-exist: that is, everything in the natural world is contingent
- If everything is contingent, then at some time there was nothing, because there must have been a time when could have come from nothing
- Everything can exist and not-exist: that is, everything in the natural world is contingent
- Criticisms from Hume and Russell
- Explanation In its form today
- In his book 'Summa Theologica' , St. Aquinas argued five ways for the existence of God
- The 3rd way is the important one as it argues that all things in the universe are contingent. They are moved , changed and caused; they do not need to exist, but they do.
- Based on this, Aquinas argued that because contingent things exist, there must be something external that was necessary which caused these contingent things to exist
- The 3rd way is the important one as it argues that all things in the universe are contingent. They are moved , changed and caused; they do not need to exist, but they do.
- Way 1: Motion
- Way 2: Causation
- Way 3: Contingency
- Way 2: Causation
- The Cosmological Argument
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