Cosmological Argument 0.0 / 5 ? Religious StudiesPhilosophyASOCR Created by: caithughes25Created on: 11-05-15 12:50 What does the word "cosmological" mean? To study the universe 1 of 23 What is the aim of the Cosmological argument? Infer the why the universe was created 2 of 23 What are the 3 arguments that make up the argument? motion, necessary cause and contingency 3 of 23 What kind of argument is it? Aposteriori - working with no evidence 4 of 23 What kind of motion in the universe does Aquinas refer to? Actual and potential motion 5 of 23 How & why does this motion happen - the purpose? By attraction to achieve perfection 6 of 23 Explain Aquinas' idea of motion using the example of wood A piece of wood (x) can be potentially hot (x) by the actual hot (x) creating actual hot wood (x) - x potential x needs actual x to become actual x 7 of 23 What kind of cause is Aquinas referring to? Uncaused Cause (Aristotle) 8 of 23 What 2 alternative ideas of causation does Aquinas reject? Why? Infinite regress and self causation - no need for a first causer/we needed a first causer 9 of 23 Kant rejects the idea of a first causer because There is no time in the universe, meanig there cannot be cause and effect 10 of 23 Mill rejects the idea of an uncaused cause because All things have a cause, an uncaused cause wouldn't make sense 11 of 23 Why does Hume criticise this argument? No explanation for God's existence and the universe has always existed 12 of 23 Hume and Russell think it is wrong to assume that all things have a cause? "just because I have a mother doesn't mean the universe has one." 13 of 23 Why is Leibniz's famous principle called? Ex nihilo nihilo fit 14 of 23 What does Leibniz's principle suggest? There is no sufficient reason for the universals existence. A full and complete reason is needed 15 of 23 Why does Aquinas mean by saying the universe is made of contingent things? we have been made by something greater as we are dependent on our existence 16 of 23 What is God for Aquinas? A necessary being 17 of 23 Why are non-contingent things necessary? Their own causation was independent, meaning they have to be necessary from the greater power they possess 18 of 23 Hume rejects the idea of God's existence because.... there is no proof/empirical evidence that God exists - just because we can imagine him doesn't mean he is real 19 of 23 Copleston focuses on which of Aquinas' 3 part argument? Contingency 20 of 23 How does Copleston define God "a being that must and cannot exist" 21 of 23 What does Russell reject in Copleston's argument and why? The words contingent and non-contingent - you can accept something to be logically incontingent 22 of 23 What does Russell say the world is? "A brute fact" 23 of 23
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