Aquinas' God doesn't interact
% Key points/Quotes with us, is uncaused and has
¼ Strengths all other commonly believed > However, most religious people
& weaknesses attributes e.g. benevolence. believe God does interact with
us and has done so already.
E. G: He has supposedly
Al Ghazali used the Aquinas argued that there must be a answered prayers and
Qur'an and these ideas first cause, unmoved mover etc and concluded spoke down to people.
together-the Kalam says that this was God. He did this through his three for example,"Saul, why
Everything that begins to exist ways: do you persecute me?"
has a cause, the universe began 1) MQ,The Yonmored
but is not maneda My 'Manningham.other things
to exist, so must have a cause. Hume asked why we need
something else to be necessary-
2) CAY, Shhhclarinettistinsinitiainfour
However, Russell would can't the universe be the
Hume agrees argue that this doesn't mean 3) NECESSARY US. CONTINGENCE: necessary being? - can the universe be
↳ God, or the'Prime Mover'must
with Russell and anything-just because we have be the necessary being, causing self explanatory? ↳ Perhaps having a cause
itEspothi ftp.fyjl rather than being
pointed out the a mother, doesn't mean the universe LEIBNIZ supported Aquinas' ideas, for things isn't a neces
Fallacy Of Composition. has a mother. '•"#seesommelining as otherwise there would be an idea, perhaps it's more
whasenesenny.se infinite regression, where the 'possibility'that x will ca
"the universe just COSMOLOGICAL world never ended or began. God
is, it is brute fact" ARGUMENT: is the necessary being that
(argument from observation) started it all off.
'a posteriori'
↳ "de re necessary God"
↳ This argument uses inductive
reasoning-drawing conclusions
from particular examples and
assuming it will happen in
another case.
This could be seen as
a disadvantage, as the
argument is based on
assumptions.-Russell's
imitation.
% Key points/Quotes with us, is uncaused and has
¼ Strengths all other commonly believed > However, most religious people
& weaknesses attributes e.g. benevolence. believe God does interact with
us and has done so already.
E. G: He has supposedly
Al Ghazali used the Aquinas argued that there must be a answered prayers and
Qur'an and these ideas first cause, unmoved mover etc and concluded spoke down to people.
together-the Kalam says that this was God. He did this through his three for example,"Saul, why
Everything that begins to exist ways: do you persecute me?"
has a cause, the universe began 1) MQ,The Yonmored
but is not maneda My 'Manningham.other things
to exist, so must have a cause. Hume asked why we need
something else to be necessary-
2) CAY, Shhhclarinettistinsinitiainfour
However, Russell would can't the universe be the
Hume agrees argue that this doesn't mean 3) NECESSARY US. CONTINGENCE: necessary being? - can the universe be
↳ God, or the'Prime Mover'must
with Russell and anything-just because we have be the necessary being, causing self explanatory? ↳ Perhaps having a cause
itEspothi ftp.fyjl rather than being
pointed out the a mother, doesn't mean the universe LEIBNIZ supported Aquinas' ideas, for things isn't a neces
Fallacy Of Composition. has a mother. '•"#seesommelining as otherwise there would be an idea, perhaps it's more
whasenesenny.se infinite regression, where the 'possibility'that x will ca
"the universe just COSMOLOGICAL world never ended or began. God
is, it is brute fact" ARGUMENT: is the necessary being that
(argument from observation) started it all off.
'a posteriori'
↳ "de re necessary God"
↳ This argument uses inductive
reasoning-drawing conclusions
from particular examples and
assuming it will happen in
another case.
This could be seen as
a disadvantage, as the
argument is based on
assumptions.-Russell's
imitation.
