PHILOS 101 Study Guide - Final Guide: The Emotions, Natural Disaster, Aan
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All powerful, all knowing, perfectly good being. Argument tries to prove g-d s existence on obvious facts of the world. An a posteriori argument: know by experience (able to think) Everything has a cause (regress of causes: 2. If there were no first cause, then the chain of ca use and effect would go back forever and would have never started, so no events would occur and nothing exists: 3. There is a first cause (cause of all things: 5. Problems with simple: most basic: claims 1 and 4 are contradictory. If there is a first cause then it cant be true tat everything has a cause. 3 is obvious 1 or 2 is false: problem of incoherence. If we get rid of 1 (everything has a cause) we would avoid contradiction except without, the regress would fail to start: problem: unmotivated. Either there is a start or there isn t.
