Cosmological arguement
A mind map made by myself about the cosmological arguement.
- Created by: Miriam
- Created on: 11-12-12 19:42
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- Cosmological arguement
- A posteriori, knowlegde gained from evidence in the world around us
- The 1st Way
- No such thing as infinite regression as with this there would be no prime mover and so no movement (change).
- Motion
- Everything is constantly changing
- Aquinas
- Potentiality moves to actuality - wood has potential to become fire, then in becomes fire in actuality.
- Potentiallity- unexibited possible characteristics
- If wood had the potential to be hot without fire it would be hot already. In order to be able to change it must be given its potentiality by something else.
- Actuality- exhibited characteristics
- The 2nd Way
- Causation
- The 3rd Way
- Contingency
- Everything is contingent- everything changes, everything comes in and out of existence.
- This means there must have been a time before when nothing existed
- The 3rd Way
- Contingency
- Everything is contingent- everything changes, everything comes in and out of existence.
- This means there must have been a time before when nothing existed
- Nothing can come from nothing so something necessarily had to have caused the start of contingency.
- This is God.
- Nothing can come from nothing so something necessarily had to have caused the start of contingency.
- This means there must have been a time before when nothing existed
- Nothing can come from nothing so something necessarily had to have caused the start of contingency.
- This is God.
- The 3rd Way
- This means there must have been a time before when nothing existed
- Disadvatages
- Humes critisism
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Infinite regression 'If
the material world rests upon a similar ideal world,
this ideal world must
rest upon some other; and so on, without end.'
- Simply because every event in a series has a cause it does not mean that the series itself has a cause
- Could be a strength to the argument as answer criticism of the universe needing a cause.
- Simply because every event in a series has a cause it does not mean that the series itself has a cause
-
Infinite regression 'If
the material world rests upon a similar ideal world,
this ideal world must
rest upon some other; and so on, without end.'
- The Prime mover that Aquinas talks of may not be of classical theism
- If God needs no cause, then why does the universe need any?
- Could be a strength to the argument as answer criticism of the universe needing a cause.
- Humes critisism
- Everything is caused by something else
- The 2nd Way
- Causation
- The 2nd Way
- Advantages
- Cosmological arguement
- A posteriori, knowlegde gained from evidence in the world around us
- The 1st Way
- No such thing as infinite regression as with this there would be no prime mover and so no movement (change).
- Motion
- Everything is constantly changing
- Aquinas
- Potentiality moves to actuality - wood has potential to become fire, then in becomes fire in actuality.
- Potentiallity- unexibited possible characteristics
- If wood had the potential to be hot without fire it would be hot already. In order to be able to change it must be given its potentiality by something else.
- Actuality- exhibited characteristics
- Disadvatages
- Humes critisism
-
Infinite regression 'If
the material world rests upon a similar ideal world,
this ideal world must
rest upon some other; and so on, without end.'
- Simply because every event in a series has a cause it does not mean that the series itself has a cause
- Simply because every event in a series has a cause it does not mean that the series itself has a cause
-
Infinite regression 'If
the material world rests upon a similar ideal world,
this ideal world must
rest upon some other; and so on, without end.'
- The Prime mover that Aquinas talks of may not be of classical theism
- If God needs no cause, then why does the universe need any?
- Humes critisism
- Cosmological arguement
- Quantum physics has proven sub-atomic particles to move without cause
- Rational as based on reasoning
- Advantages
- Advantages
- The cause of everything must act outside of our time and realm. This disagrees with the Christian (Aquinas's) view of God
- Answers the question of our beginnings
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