The purpose of cosmological arguments is to start with the subject the universe and trace it back to the root that being the cause which according to Leibniz is an infinite necessary being. Profound philosophers used this method in order to enable the general public and academics to seeing the correlation between the universe, and its source God. Leibniz’s main objective was to take Aquinas 's foundation within his cosmological argument and tweak it until absolute clarity was established with what he entitled Principle of sufficient reason. By absorbing Aquinas’s interpretation he complied with Aquinas’s account, that the sole premise of necessity was enough to display the …show more content…
For Leibniz when pertaining to a subject matter such as the world the only adequate answer, is the existence of God. He completely, utterly eliminates the conception that it could be crafted by any other mortal craftsmen. Considering if something as a physical property and a living component that means it as the potentiality to no longer remain existent. Therefore, for a being to create the universe it would need not only to be non physical but, spiritual and abstract(Pikkert,Owen.Nov 17th.2016). Hence, Leibniz denies any other physical body being capable of infinite capabilities. Why does Leibniz intuitively search for a source one might ask? due to the cosmological argument. The premise behind the argument stands, we can all comply to agreement that the universe exists, we can all come to the mutual agreement that there must be an explanation due to the principle of sufficient reason. Hence, that explanation must be God, the ultimate source. Broken down