PHIL 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cosmological Argument, Middle Ages, Ontological Argument
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If fluffy is a dog, then fluffy is an animal (true) For the purposes of this class, god is a perfect being. What qualities make up the concept of god, on perfect being theology. Self-existing impossible for god to not exist. All powerful; having all the power that one could possibly have. Creator of and independent from the universe; not dependent on creation; creation is dependent on god. Naturalism (widely accepted in the 19th c) (1) there is no god (2) the world (as in al that there is) consists solely of matter in motion. Everything is made up of matter and everything behaves according to certain strict and invariable laws. (3) matter had always existed. There is no beginning ot the universe. (4) the universe has no purpose (5) human beings are nothing more than complex configurations of matter.
