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Unit 1: Arguments for the Existence of God - Coggle Diagram
Unit 1: Arguments for the Existence of God
Inductive
Empirical
Synthetic
A posteriori
Deductive
Reason
Analytic
A priori
A. Cosmological Argument
Thomas Aquinas
Who was he?
Title of book
First Way (actuality & potentiality)
Second Way (cause and effect)
Third Way (contingency and necessity)
The Kalam CA
History of the argument
What is the argument?
William Lane-Craig
Whatever begins to exist has a cause (potential vs actual infinites)
Concept of a personal creator
Who was he?
B. Teleological Argument
Thomas Aquinas
Fifth Way
Concept of Governance (design qua regularity)
Archer and arrow analogy
William Paley
Analogy of compex design (design qua regularity and qua purpose)
Who was he?
F.R.Tennant
Who was he?
The anthropic principle
The aesthetic principle
C. Challenges to Inductive Arguments
David Hume
Who was he?
COSMOLOGICAL: Empirical objections and critique of causes
The cause is God
The universe must have a cause
1, Every effect has a cause
4 There is evidence that God exists
TELEOLOGICAL:
Problems with analogies
Rejection of traditional theistic claims
Apprentice god
Plurality of gods
Malevolent god
Absent God
Not the God of classical theism
Alternative scientific explanations
The Big Bang
Evolution
D. Ontological Argument
St Anselm
Who was he?
In intellectu
and
in re
Proslogion 2
Contingent vs Necessary Existence
Proslogion 3
TTWNGCBC
E. Developments of Ontological Argument
Rene Descartes
Clear and distinct perception
I think therefore I am
Who was he?
Innate ideas
Existence as a predicate
Norman Malcolm
Who was he?
God as
unlimited being
Modal Logic
Impossible
Possible
Necessary
F. Challenges to Ontological Argument
Gaunilo to Anselm
Who was he?
Rejection conclusion that TTWNGCBC existing outside mind
Greatest possible island
Counter challenge - Anselm
Immanuel Kant
Who was he?
Existence is not a predicate
Deny the concept of God
Existence must be proven synthetically not analytically