The Cosmological Argument
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- The Cosmological Argument
- The argument...
- A posteriori
- Synthetic - e.g. Dads are good at fixing things
- Based on the views of Aristotle on cause and the prime mover
- Inductive - the conclusion is the most probable based on evidence
- By Thomas Aquinas
- Aquinas' First Way
- 1. Things in the world are in a state of motion
- 2. Everything moves from potentiality to actuality
- 3. Everything in motion is put in motion by something else
- 4. There can't be an infinity of movers, there must have been a first mover
- 5. Everyone understands this to be God
- Aquinas' Second Way
- 1. Nothing is an efficient cause of itself
- 2. A first cause causes a second cause etc.
- 3. There can't be an infinity of causes
- 4. There must have been a first cause which everyone calls God
- Hume
- Maybe we wrongly assume
- Putting your hand out to stop a bus works so that must be the cause of the bus stopping
- Fallacy of composition
- Russell
- The universe is 'brute fact'
- 'That's a different logical sphere'
- Is it necessary for the whole universe to have a cause just because things in it do?
- Anskum
- Tries to overcome the fallacy of composition
- Pulling a rabbit from a hat has a cause even if you don't understand it
- Russell
- The principle of sufficient reason
- Leibniz
- We need a full explanation for everything
- God provides the sufficient reason
- Russell - Copleston debate
- Arguing that some things don't need a cause
- Russell supports infinite regress
- Leibniz
- The argument...
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