UCI Aquinas Cosmological Argument Essay

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University of California Irvine

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Outline the logical structure of one of the arguments for the existence of God discussed in the first part of the class:

  • Anselm's ontological argument
  • Aquinas' cosmological argument
  • Paley's design argument

Put the argument in premise and conclusion form, and discuss each of the premises. Do not evaluate the argument at this stage, just try your best to capture the argument. Be charitable---try to present a plausible argument.

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Running head: AQUINAS’ COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENT

Aquinas' Cosmological Argument
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AQUINAS’ COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENT

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Aquinas' Cosmological Argument
In trying to prove that God is truly present, Aquinas in the Summa Theologica devised
five ways through which the existence of God can be proved; Argument from change, Argument
from causation, Argument from contingency, Argument from degrees of excellence, and
Argument from harmony (Shapcote, 1911). The first cause is taken from the idea of motion, with
the argument that everything that moves is moved by something else. The thing that causes
motion is in actuality because a thing in its potentiality cannot cause itself to move. The series of
things that cause others to move continues in a series but not into infinity, because there must be
a thing that initiated the motion in the first place. The first mover that is not moved by anything
else is understood to be God (Shapcote, 1911).
The second argument arises from the idea of efficient cause, in the sense that there is a
regular order of efficient causes among material things. The series ...


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