Cosmological Flashcards
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David Hume
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1711-1776
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St Thomas Aquinas
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1224-1274
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Bertrand Russell
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1872-1970
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Frederick Copleston
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1907-1994
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Aquinas’ argument
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1)motion 2)cause 3)necessity
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Hume’s challenges
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1) fallacy of composition
2) universe is eternal
3) some other cause
4) no experience
5) must involve contradiction to be necessary
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Russell’s challenge
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1) unfalsifiable hypothesis
2) fallacy of composition
3) physics shows things just come
4) rejects necessity
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Copleston’s argument
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Nothing is its own external purpose but there can’t be an infinite regress
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Leibniz
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Principle of sufficient reason
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Strengths
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Ex nihilo nihil fit
Empiricism
Cosmology supports it
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Weaknesses
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God is causa sui but that’s a contradiction
Fallacy of composition
Doesn’t lead to JC god
