PHL210Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Occasionalism

• School: UTM
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHL210Y5
• Professor: Marleen Rozemond

Document Summary

Fi(cid:374)ite (cid:373)i(cid:374)ds do(cid:374)"t (cid:373)ove bodies: whe(cid:374) you (cid:373)o(cid:448)e your (cid:271)ody, you do(cid:374)"t k(cid:374)o(cid:449) all of the s(cid:373)all (cid:373)o(cid:448)e(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts that are i(cid:374)(cid:448)ol(cid:448)ed. We just need to move the first bit of animals spirits: this isn"t going to work because the body"s/spirits cant move one another. If god caused plants to grow without water, for example, he"d be acting by a miracle. Its better for god to act according to simple laws. We can still distinguish living and non living things in terms of their activity.