The Cosmological Argument

Question 1

Quote from Russel on “Brute fact.”

Answer 1

” The universe is just there, and that’s all “

Question 2

The cosmological argument

Answer 2

Part of Aquinas’ Summa theologica and his Quinqua Vae ( 5 ways)
It says everything in the world originated from another thing ( contingent), nothing comes from nothing so if there wasn’t a necessary being who is not contingent then nothing would exist- there wouldbe infinite regress. God is this necessary being.

Question 3

Hume and russels criticisms of Cosmological argument

Answer 3

The universe itself could be necessary, Occchams razor. This is the simplest explanation.

The fallacy of composition, what is true of the parts isn’t necessarily true of the whole. Aquinas commits this fallacy. Just because everything I the world is contingent doesn’t mean the entire world or universe is.

Hume argued for the possibility of infinite regress, what caused God?

Question 4

What book did Aquinas write ?

Answer 4

Summa theologica, in it, he detailed 5 ways for the existence of God. (Qinqua Vae) This is his 3rd.

Question 5

What is a fallacy

Answer 5

A mistake

Question 6

Whalt type of argument is the Cosmological?

Answer 6

One based on empirical induction : a posteriori, synthetic .