Cosmological Argument Flashcards
(10 cards)
Swinburne argument
Since their ought , more reasonably to be nothing rather than something , the fact there is something suggests a creator.
Russell explanation for universe
’ I should say that the universe is just there and that is all ‘ should except the universe as a brute fact
Hume
The fallacy of composition
Also linking cause an effect is invalid and could be an illusion.
Kant
Rejected argument cause the idea of a necessary being is incomprehensible because our knowledge is limited to world of space and time and it’s not possible to speculate about what may or not exist independently of space and time.
Leibniz argument
Principle of sufficient reason. Universe is caused. Sufficient reason must not be contingent. No object can exist by themselves. There must be a being that is self existent. Universe can only be sufficiently explained with reference to God. As only God is different from all contingent beings
Coplestone
’ God is his own sufficient cause ‘
Russell. Fallacy of composition
‘Every man who exists has a mother , and it seems to me your argument is that therefore the human race must have a mother , but obviously the human race hasn’t a mother- that’s a different logical sphere ‘
Aristotle
“All things that are in motion must be moved by something “
Craig describing Aristotle
Aristotle believes that all change , motion being a type of change , involves the actualising if some potency. It is because things have real potencies that the are able to change. Its potency cannot actualise itself. The potential , precisely cause It’s potential , can not make itself actual
Aristotle efficient cause
Everything has an efficient cause “ since nothing can come from nothing “ chain of contingent events couldn’t have occurred infinitely. All change in the universe must come from an ultimate source , the unmoved mover , which is not reliant on anything
