Cosmological Flashcards
The premise of the argument is that…
Nothing comes from nothing, so something must have made the universe, and that something is God
The Cosmological Argument is put forward by…
Aquinus
The necessary being is…
God
This being is…
Separate from the universe
This argument involves knowledge gained through senses, known as…
A Posteriori argument
Aquinus’ cosmological argument consists of…
Unmoved mover
Uncaused causer
Uncontigent being
Copleston argued on behalf of…
Aquinus
In relation to the Third way of Aquinus, God is a …. being
Necessary
Who claimed that the argument about the universe having a cause was ‘a particularly gross howler’?
Anthony Flew
A Posteriori knowledge is gained through…
Experience
Who claimed the Universe was a ‘brute fact’?
Bertrand Russell
Who claimed there must be sufficient reason for the Universe to exist?
Leibniz
Russell described himself as…
Agnostic
Aquinus was…
Catholic
Russell argued that something’s such as quantum atoms have …
No cause
