Cosmological Argument
- Created by: Tom Kydd-Coutts
- Created on: 17-04-14 12:17
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- Cosmological Argument
- Cosmos
- Universe is a holistic and ordered entity
- A posteriori argument based on order in the universe
- Thomas Aquinas
- Christian Monk
- 5 ways of proving gods existence
- First three concern cosmological argument
- Argument from cause
- Argument from motion
- Kalam Argment
- "You cannot step in the same river twice"
- Heraclitus
- Argument from contingency
- God is a necessity
- Can't have infinite regression
- Logical to assume things cannot bring themselves into existence
- First three concern cosmological argument
- 1225-1274
- Frederick Copleston
- Everything is contingent
- There must be a cause for this
- The cause must be necessary(not dependent)
- This necessary being is God
- "The concept of cause is not applicable to the total."
- The cause must be necessary(not dependent)
- There must be a cause for this
- Bertrand Russell
- 1947 Radio 4 debate
- Frederick Copleston
- Everything is contingent
- There must be a cause for this
- The cause must be necessary(not dependent)
- This necessary being is God
- "The concept of cause is not applicable to the total."
- The cause must be necessary(not dependent)
- There must be a cause for this
- Bertrand Russell
- 1947 Radio 4 debate
- "The universe is just there, that is all."
- 1947 Radio 4 debate
- "If one refuses to sit on a chessboard and make a move, then one, of course, cannot be checkmated."
- Everything is contingent
- Frederick Copleston
- "The universe is just there, that is all."
- 1947 Radio 4 debate
- "If one refuses to sit on a chessboard and make a move, then one, of course, cannot be checkmated."
- Everything is contingent
- Criticisms
- Hume
- Too illogical a jump to say that everything in the world is caused, the universe has a cause
- Just because every human has a mother it does not mean the universe does
- Just because every human has a mother it does not mean the universe does
- Beyond human experience too know of God's nature
- How are we ever to prove the existence of an unknowable, existentially different being
- Too illogical a jump to say that everything in the world is caused, the universe has a cause
- Hume
- Cosmos
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