PHIL 1000H Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Fallacy, Cosmological Argument
4 Apr 2016
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God is an effect, nature is a cause. God is infinite, his effects are finite. Justifies why there are things we do not know. The fifth way is the governance of the world. There must be an intelligent form that directs nature. All arguments are a posteriori and most are featured as deductive. Leaner and meaner beginning than the teleological. Leibnitz (18th century philosopher) thought that why is there something rather than nothing? is a fundamental questions that is cosmologically driven. P2: if there are contingent beings there must exist a necessary being. C: there must exist a necessary being. Not everything exists in the same way, some contingently others necessarily. Contingently: they exist but they need not to as their existence. Contingent beings have a timeline is conceivable. A world of contingent beings cannot exist (dependent beings) There must be a source of there dependence.
