OCR Philosophy - The Cosmological Argument

The Cosmological Argument

Cosmology - Argues for the existence of the world, and its perceived state of order, to the existence of a Creator, or God.

Plato's (428 - 374BCE) theory:

• Motion and change are brought about by something which is external to the things being moved or changed.
• There is a self-moving principle from which all change and motion originate.
• This principle is the soul and this is responsible for the world as it is

Thomas Aquinas's (1225 - 1274) theory:

FIVE WAYS

 1) The unmoved mover -

• Everything which is moving or changing is moved by something else. 
• The instigator of the movement or change is also being moved or changed.
• This keeps going on.
• However this cannot go back infinitely, infinite regression is not possible.
• Therefore there must be a First Mover independent of…