PHILOS 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Unmoved Mover, Cosmological Argument
15 Oct 2016
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To know a thing is to know the cause, the reason for its being as it is. A cause is a reason, and everything must have a reason. Proves a thing is necessary, and couldn"t have been other than the way it is. Reality is reason, everything that truly is, truly must be. Aristotle believes god is a scientific fact, a reason. The evidence is the evidence of fact and motion and change. All change is a factor of motion and all motion must have a cause. Material cause: the material persisting through the change. Final cause (teleological cause): the purpose of the change. Cosmological argument: deduce god"s existence as the first cause of motion. Reasons for gods existence: time is imperishable. There cannot be a before or after time, time always is. Aristotle defines time as the number or counting of changes. The number of dawns, lunar cycles: time is the number of motion.
