The Cosmological Argument
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- Created on: 25-11-19 14:20
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- The Cosmological Argument
- The basis for the Cosmological Argument is that the universe cannot account for it's own existence
- Ideas
- 1. There must be a reason for the universe to exist.
- 2. It's incapable for being the reason for its own existence.
- 3. The reason must be something which is not part of the physical world of time and space.
- Ideas
- A Posteriori
- The argument suggests that something must have caused the universe to exist.
- Our logic and empirical evidence suggests that nothing happens without something causing it to happen
- It finally suggests that the cause is 'that which people know as God'
- 2 Assumptions
- 1. The universe exists
- 2. There must be a reason why
- Our logic and empirical evidence suggests that nothing happens without something causing it to happen
- Plato c.360BC
- Everything must have been created by some cause
- Aristotle c.347BC
- Series of cause and effect and an unmoved mover
- Thomas Aquinas 1225 - 1274
- Italian Monk
- Influential thinker within christian tradition
- Hugely influenced by Plato and Aristotle
- He attempted to write that Greek and Christian beliefs could work together
- He was not creating new arguments but using old ones
- Ultimate Explanation
- We do not know what God is, but whatever God is, God is whatever is necessary to explain the universe's existance
- Aquinas' 5 Ways
- Only the first 3 apply to the cosmological argument
- 1. From Motion
- 2. From Efficient Causes
- 3. From Contingency and Necessity
- 4. From Grades of Perfection in things
- 5. From Design
- The basis for the Cosmological Argument is that the universe cannot account for it's own existence
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