PHL100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Reductio Ad Absurdum, Cosmological Argument
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Aquinas and taylor the cosmological argument for the existence of god. Two a posteriori theistic arguments: the problem of evil. If god holds the o"s then he should not let evil happen: we don"t need god to explain anything. Everything in the universe seems to account for itself. Holds 5 a posteriori theistic arguments: a. Everything that moves is moved by something else. Reply to the problem of evil: god permits bad things so that good can come out of them. Reply to not needing god: we need to invoke something (god), then we cannot explain many things. We cannot have an infinite chain of causes. You"re walking in forest, you see translucent orb, what do you think: there must be some sort of explanation. Is the psr true: reasonable to assume that there must be a reason, there are two types of truths: d. i. 1. Things that could have been different (i. e. name) d. i. 2.
