PHIL 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Wormhole, Quantum Fluctuation, Einstein Field Equations

• School: York University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1000
• Professor: Alex Manafu

Document Summary

Aquinas believed that the existence of god is neither self-evident nor beyond proof. He details five rational proofs for the existence of god: the argument from motion (originally proposed by aristotle) P1) in the world, some things are in motion. P2) whatever is put in motion is put in motion by another. P3) there can be no infinite chain of movers (because then there would be no first mover, and thus no other mover). Conclusion: therefore, this is a first mover, which is itself unmoved. Call into question the first premise, that some things are in motion. Following parmenides, zeno argued that motion is impossible. Paradoxes: arrow and target, achilles and tortoise. Theism belief in the existence of god. Atheism belief that god does not exist. Deism god created the world and then let nature run it (absentee landlord) Pantheism the universe and god are the same, a divine whole.