PHIL 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ipso Facto, Cosmological Argument
21 Nov 2020
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It has frequently been pointed out that even if this argument were sound it would not establish the existence of god. It would not show that the first cause is all-powerful or all-good or that it is in any sense personal . A b w x y z. For in maintaining that the series is infinite [aquinas] is denying that it has a first member denying that there is such a thing as a first cause denying the existence of. [aquinas"] position implies that z does not exist now; and that is plainly false aquinas has failed to distinguish between 1. To say that the series is infinite implies (2), but it does not imply (1) the believer in the infinite series is not taking a away. " he is taking away the privileged status of a; he is taking its first causiness. " .
