Economics 1022A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cosmological Argument, Bertrand Russell

• School: Western University
• Department: Economics
• Course: Economics 1022A/B
• Professor: Emilie Mc Hugh Rivers

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If one of two contraries be infinite, the other would be altogether destroyed. If god existed, there would be no evil discoverable, but there is evil in the world. Everything we see in the world can be accounted for by other principles, supposing god did not exist. All natural things can be reduced to one principle which is nature; all voluntary things can be reduced to one principle which is human nature, or will. There is no need to suppose god"s existence. The existence of god can be proved in 5 ways: In the world some things are in motion. Whatever is in motion is put in motion by another, for nothing can be in motion except it is in potentially to that towards which it is in motion. A thing moves inasmuch as it is in act. Motion is nothing else than the reduction of something from potentiality to actuality.