The cosmological argument

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What does the cosmological argument refer to?
A collection of arguments that have been continually developed
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Where does the word cosmological come from?
The word cosmos which means world
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What did Richard Swindburne write about the quest for an explanation?
"A may be explained by B and B by C but in the end there will be some one object upon which all other objects depend."
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What sort of argument is the cosmological argument?
It is A posteriori, inductive and synthetic.
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What did Aristotle say about the argument?
"The series must start with something since nothing can come from nothing."
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What is St Thomas Aquinas' Third way?
From contngency. It refers to the idea that because everything that begins to exist has a cause the universe must have a cause.This is due to contingency. Therefore, there must be a nessacary being that was the prime mover. This is argued to be God.
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Why is it suggested the prime mover is the God of Classical Thiesm?
>Transcendence >Spiritual >Supports the idea of Genesis.
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What did Russel say about the cosmological argument?
Ther universe is brute fact. It is there that is all and is self sufficent therefore needs no external explanation.
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What did Coppleston say about the cosmological argument?
The universe is made entirely of contingent things. Therefore, the universe is also contingent. The universe needs an external explanation. "A being that must and cannot not exist." A nessacary being-God.
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What does Russell suggest is inconsistent about the argument?
Using this reasoning you could suggest that each human has a mother. We as humans are a race therefore the human race has a mother but this is incorrect.
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What did Leibnez say about the argument?
The universe needs an explanation because sufficent reason demands an explanation.
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What did Kant say about God being a nessacary being?
A nessacary being is a meaningless contradiction.
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What did copplston say about God being a nessacary being?
By defintition God is self explanatory. He cannot not exist=nessacary.
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What did Locke say the argument lead to?
Not the God of classical Thiesm but a diest God.
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What did David Hume say about the cosmological argument?
In dialogues concerning natural religion he asked why we must conclude the universe had a beginning. "How can anything tha exists from eternity have a beginning?" He also said we make wrongful connections between cause and effect.
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What does the cosmological argument reject?
infinite regress
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What is deism?
The belief in more than one God.
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Where did Thomas Aquinas write about his third way?
Summa theoligica
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What did Aristotle say about the prime mover?
All movement depends on having a mover behind every movement. So someone or something must be responsible for the first movement. This is an external being immune to change, death and decay. A prime mover. (Not God of Classical Theism.
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