The Cosmological Argument
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- The Cosmological argument
- God is the best answer to the questions: why does anything exist? and why does anything change?
- Plato
- Movement is either caused or self generated.
- Aristotle
- God is the "first cause" and the "unmoved mover"
- Nothing would happen if God did not exist
- God is the final cause. The purpose of things happening
- Nothing would happen if God did not exist
- God is the "first cause" and the "unmoved mover"
- Aquinas
- Second way- the first cause
- Everything must have a final cause and this is impossible without a first, to start everything
- First way - From Motion
- Every movement is caused by another (domino effect) There must be a start
- Third Way- from possibility and necessity
- All natural things are contingent therefore there must be something that has necessary existence otherwise everything natural would cease to exist
- The first way and second way are one
- Argument is posteriori
- Could be seen that we havn't reached the time where contingent things vanish
- All natural things are contingent therefore there must be something that has necessary existence otherwise everything natural would cease to exist
- Second way- the first cause
- Critiscims
- Not everything necessarily has a cause
- The Big Bang
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