PHIL 101 Lecture Notes - Cosmological Argument
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Every even tracing back to one cause is not the same as on cause causing all events. Dependent being: a being whose existence is accounted for by the causal activity of other things. Self-existing being: a being whose existence is accounted for by its own nature. Defending (aquinas" p2) principle of sufficient reason: a cosmological. P1: every being is either a dependent being or a self-existent (independent) being. P2: there exists an independent (self-existent) being or every being is dependent. P3: not every being can be a dependent being. C2: hence, there exists a necessary being (i. e. , god). Objecting (aquinas" p2) principle of sufficient reason: defenders of psr (god believers) say that if dependent beings go back infinitely, the series itself will lack meaning. Well inducing from the fact that everything we have observed so far is dependent (mortal), that leaves us with a fact that there is no explanation for the chain and, everything has always been dependent.
