PHIL 151 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Natural Religion, Empirical Evidence, Empiricism
15 Dec 2016
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Arguments for the existence of god itself god itself put it in. Descartes: concepts of god special properties, could not know how hard humans could think of: ontological idea of god, supremely perfect being, must exist if not, it would not be perfect. Cannot make argument from nature or reasoning. Thomas aquinas (1225-1274) five ways to prove god"s existence. Suma theologica prove existence in 5 ways. Argument from motion (change: change is transition from potentially to actuality. Object heats up, start cold, end is hot. Something, a undergoes change, change must be brought by something else, b. B must undergo change from potentiality to actuality, something else, c responsible for change. Regress can be stopped by appeal to a first mover that is move by no. Something must stop regress, or nothing could ever happen. Must be a first cause: god: efficient causation aristotle. Argument from possibility and necessity: objects of world are finite things, they can not-be, not exist.
