PHIL 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Agnolo Gaddi, Maurice Maeterlinck, Teleological Argument
27 Sep 2017
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God is thought to be the holy spirit which would make him immanent. Essence to existence (descartes: god is a being of all perfections) Observation, that life and nature and the entire cosmos is ordered and designed, therefore god is the order or the designer of the cosmos. God could have designed a much better world. William paley (1743-1805)- appealed to nature phenomenon. Imagine some aboriginal walking through the jungle and coming across this object. The aboriginal would immediately think it is an artifact. The world functions like a good swiss watch. Can not only infer that god exists as a designer but can infer all of his characteristics. If god were many, things would be really screwed up. Maybe god exists but is impotent or not all knowing, or not all good. The crucifixion by agnolo gaddi, italian painter, (active 1369-96 in. The very reverse seems must closer to the truth .
