Philosophy 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Unmoved Mover, Bertrand Russell, Cosmological Argument

• School: Western University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: Philosophy 1020
• Professor: Dennis Klimchuk

Document Summary

From facts about motion (change): if something has the potentiality to change the. Facts about causation: there are things in the world caused by other things which means that everything is caused by something. You can go on forever but you have to find the route of the cause, you have to stop somewhere. The un-moved mover is how this is described. Russell s reply to the 2nd way (cid:498)if everything must have a cause, then god must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just as well be the world as god. (cid:499) Aquinas: there must be something without a cause and that is god.