COSMOLOGICAL

Question 1

what is the KALAM argument

Answer 1

-whatever begins to exist has a cause
-the universe began to exist
-therefore the universe has a cause

Question 2

what is a cosmological argument

Answer 2

starts from the observation that everything depends on something else to exist

Question 3

what are Aquainas’s five ways

Answer 3

arguments from causation
arguments from motion
contingency argument

Question 4

what is aquinas’ argument from motion

Answer 4

-things in the world are in motion
-whatever is in motion must have been put in motion by something else
-if something in motion must have been put in motion by something else in motion.
-if this chain goes on infinitely then there is no first mover
- if there is no first mover then nothing would be in motion
-so there must be a first mover
- the first mover is god

Question 5

What does the argument from contingency rely on

Answer 5

-relies on distinction between necessary and contingent
-things the exist contingently might not have existed
-tree in the field wouldn’t exist if nobody had planted the seed

Question 6

explain the contingency argument

Answer 6

-everything that exists contingently did not exist at some point
-if everything exists contingently then at one point nothing existed
-if nothing existed then nothing could begin to exist
-but since things do exist, there was never nothing in existence
-therefore something exists necessarily
-this necessary being is god

Question 7

Descartes cosmological argument

Answer 7

expansion of Kalam
-cant be the cause of my existence, or i would be perfect
-i depend on something else to exist
-i can conceive of god
-what caused me to exist, must also conceive of god
-what caused me to exist but be the cause of its own existence, or