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| What Key Thinker and Document Critiqued the Cosmological Argument? | > David Hume (1711 - 1776) > Scottish enlightenment philosopher > Empiricist - knowledge only comes from sensory experience > Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (1779) |
| What were Hume's Objections to the Cosmological Argument? | > Every Forest Contains Giant Insects: - Empirical Objection - there is no observable (empirical) evidence that the Universe was created - Fallacy of Composition - argument confuses the properties of a whole with the properties of the parts - there is no reason to explain the cause of the entirety if we know the cause of each part - Contradictory - if nothing can cause itself, then what causes God? If God is eternal, why can't the Universe be too? - God of Classical Theism - the argument points to any transcendent, necessary being, NOT ONLY the God of Classical Theism - Infinite Regress - there does not have to be an ultimate reason, it could be there is no explanation for the existence of things (brute force argument) |
| Quote for Hume's Objections | "Any particle of matter... may be conceived to be annihilated... that same argument extends equally to the Deity" - Hume > Essentially, why isn't God also contingent? |
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