Philosophy 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Gaunilo Of Marmoutiers, Empiricism, Unmoved Mover
24 Mar 2016
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Aquinas: rejects anslem"s premise that we may conceive of god or have god in mind, we cannot know something in nite when we ourselves are nite. P1 every moving thing must be sent in motion by another moving thing which must be set in motion by another moving thing, and so on. P2 if this series extends back to in nity, there would be no rst mover. P3 a series with no beginning, has no middle, and no end. P4 yet, there is a series of motions. C therefore there must be a rst mover or an unmoved mover; god. P1 there is a series of ef cient causes. P2 nothing can cause itself, because then it would have existed before it was caused, P3 a series that extends back to in nity, there would be no rst cause. P4 a series with no beginning has no middle or end.
