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Flashcards by cozmasaskia, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by cozmasaskia
almost 9 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| 1st way | Motion : 1) Motion leads to other motion 2) Can't infinitely regress 3) Therefore God |
| 2nd way | Cause / effect : 1) Everything is caused and is an effect 2) Can't infinitely regress 3) Therefore God - contains own cause within self |
| 3rd way | Contingency / necessity : 1) Everything is contingent 2) There was a point where there was no existence 3) Therefore God exists necessarily |
| 4th way | Gradation of being : 1) There is a scale of good to bad 2) must be an ultimate good to compare to to see how good something is 3) Therefore must be a supreme good - God |
| 5th way | Purpose / Telos 1) Things move towards their purpose 2) Must be an ultimate purpose 3) God is this purpose |
| Analogy for purpose | Archer shooting the arrow : (Archer = God, Arrow = object being directed) Inanimate objects can't move towards their end themselves Therefore God directs it |
| Criticisms | 1) Assumes natural world has a purpose 2) SWINBURNE - not 'satisfactory' as it doesn't answer if God imposes regularity 3) 'Brute fact' argument |
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