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

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

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2. a. there are two options: one is impossible (infinite regress), so the other is god: everything has a cause, including the thing that happened before this, and this etc. , until you stop where something is not caused; God there something before everything, therefore, there was nothing at some point if there was a start c. 4. from facts about the graduation to be found in things: something are better than other things, and therefore, the best thing must have the best; which created everything; which is god. 5. from facts about the governance of the world.