Philosophical arguments

The cosmological argument for God’s existence is one of the most revered of the classical arguments for theism. Throughout history, it has found defenders from Aristotle to Aquinas to Leibniz, to name a few. There are actually three main variations of the cosmological argument: the kalam argument for a temporal first cause of the universe, the Thomistic argument for some ultimate ground of ontological being, and the Leibnizian argument for a necessary explanation of why the universe exists at…

cosmological argument for the existence of God 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…

to McCloskey’s Article Shamyra Thompson Liberty University Introduction In the short article On Being an Atheist, H.J. McCloskey discusses several arguments pertaining to the whether or no there is a God and what one believes to be evil. McCloskey also refers to the arguments as “proof” as well as implied several times that they can’t define or establish the existence of God. In the light of Foreman’s comments in regards to the question of God’s…

of something is intelligible only if it has explanation” (“Philosophical Proofs on the Existence of God” 2). He goes on to discuss how there are three types of explanation: personal, scientific, and essential. Personal explanation cites desires and beliefs, whereas scientific uses laws and physical conditions to make the explanation, leaving essential explanations to rely on the necessitates of its existence to make a case (“Philosophical Proofs on the Existence of God” 2-3). God acts as the…

itself white, than who or what did? To answer this question, one must look to the rest of Paley’s argument. He claims that our society parallels these machines, though society is far greater than the machines. So, just as every word played a role in creating the poem, each part makes the stapler function, and each person plays a role in society. Third, like effects imply like causes. And if Paley’s argument is thus far true, then we can claim that the world, much like these machines, must have…

Throughout Hume’s Dialogues, Philo takes the position of the skeptic, questioning the arguments of both Cleanthes and Demea. If it were not for his occasional approbation of God’s existence, the reader would be led to consider him an atheist. This makes it all the stranger when, in Part XII, he suddenly supports an argument for God’s existence from design. Far from criticizing the design argument, as he does a number of times earlier in the dialogues, he says that “no man can be so hardened… as……

cause of the universe” The cosmological argument is a multitude of arguments that have been developed to modern day ideas. These arguments are based on natural theology; this is when someone has knowledge of God based on experiences. It is a philosophical argument that aims to prove the existence of God. The cosmological argument rejects the idea of infant regress because if that is the cause there is no need for God. The origins of the cosmological argument comes from Plato and Aristotle in…

In this paper, I will defend David Hume’s arguments for the design argument, which states that the design argument fails. Hume’s objections to the design argument are first, that we cannot compare human artifacts to the universe because these are too different; second, that we have not witnessed the design of a universe; and third, that we cannot conclude that God is the only one. He criticizes the design argument by pointing out that the analogy is based only on limited experience, making it…

Nathan Cha Professor Song Philosophical Perspectives 17 December 2015 The cosmological Argument In William Lane Craig’s, “The Kalam Cosmological Argument,” he argues that whatever begins to exists had a cause of its existence, and since the universe began to exist Craig claims that the universe had a cause for existing. Craig furthers his claim by stating that God is the cause for the universe existing. To object to this argument J.L. Mackie brings some questions to the table to unpack…

cosmological argument aims to study the nature and order of the universe. “‘The world cannot come from nothing’. The idea here is that the existence of the universe demands a cause, reason, or explanation.” (Davis, 1993) It is also known as the first cause argument. The argument states that we can infer the existence of God from the universe. It is an a posteriori argument which starts at experience. Cosmological arguments are made from the viewpoint of observation. The cosmological argument…