Argument
Cosmological argument
Overview
argument that God's existence is required to explain the existence or nature of the universe
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The aim of the cosmological argument is to avoid the necessity of proving the existence of a necessary being priori from mere conceptions—a proof which must be ontological, and of which we feel ourselves quite incapable. With this purpose, we reason from an actual existence—an experience in general, to an absolutely necessary condition of that existence. It is in this case unnecessary to demonstrate its possibility.
Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason
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Leibniz employs three arguments to prove the existence of God: that of God as the sufficient reason of the world (substantially the cosmological proof); of God as the source of the pre-established harmony (an extension of the teleological proof); and the ontological. The latter he accepts as it came from the hands of Descartes, but insists that it requires an added argument before it ranks as anything more than…
John Dewey, Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding
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Of the Ideal in General. Section II. Of the Transcendental Ideal (Prototypon Trancendentale). Section III. Of the Arguments employed by Speculative Reason in Proof of the Existence of a Supreme Being. Section IV. Of the Impossibility of an Ontological Proof of the Existence of God. Section V. Of the Impossibility of a Cosmological Proof of the Existence of God. Section VI. Of the Impossibility of a…
Immanuel Kant, Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Immanuel Kant
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Philosophers who discussed Cosmological argument
- Giordano Bruno
- Immanuel Kant
- John Locke
- Thomas Aquinas
- Averroes
- William L. Rowe
- Thomas Brown (philosopher)
- The Age of Reason
- Alexander Pruss
- John A. Leslie
- Zera Yacob (philosopher)
- God and Other Minds
- Hatata
Related ideas
- Frederick Copleston
- Avicenna
- Principle of sufficient reason
- Kalam cosmological argument
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Immanuel Kant
- Physics (Aristotle)
- Problem of induction
- Contingency (philosophy)
- Creatio ex nihilo
- Logical conjunction
- Substantial form
- Cosmology
- Samuel Clarke
- Metaphysics
- Maimonides
- Matter
- Thomas Aquinas
- Paul Edwards (philosopher)
- Natural theology
- Ontology
- Plato
- Philosophy of religion
- Neoplatonism
Place in the tradition
Part of Agnosticism.