Cosmological arguments

COSMO ARG

• devised by Aquinas
• existence of universe is not explicable without references and factors outside itself
• cannot be self causing since it is continent
• it is necessary to have a cause & mover to explain its existence
• attempts to prove God's existence a posteriori

AQUINAS'S COSMO ARG

Argument from motion

• everything in the world is moving or changing
• nothing can move or change by itself
• there cannot be an infinite regress of things changing over things
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