AS Philosophy: January 2015

Thursday, 29 January 2015

Poem

The cosmological argument is an argument

Attempting to explain why God shouldn’t be a target

To all these atheist haters

That tries to act like they are dictators

The argument goes as follows

Everything has been caused to exist by something else

Not everything has been caused to exist by someone

Therefore at least one thing is uncaused; at least that’s the assumption

The cosmological arguments say that

The big bang is not an event and that’s Fact

But if everything had a cause, what caused to first cause?

But fi we follow this like of thought

We come to the conclusion that

Why can’t the universe be expanding?!

cosmological song by Laura Mackie ©

Cosmological Argument ©
(To the melody of Break Free - Ariana Grande ft Zedd)

Cosmological
Argument
Aquinas he said three things

First is motion
Cause
And then contingency

Motion means that everything is moved
So there must be a first mover
Cause means nothing can cause itself
So there must be a first cause

This is the part when I talk about Hume
He's all about empirical
Data, or else it is all fake
So he doesn't think there's a cause

This is the part when I clarify with Mackie
Infinite regression
For he thinks it's not logical
So he believes there is a cause

Now to talk about
Contingency
Meaning that nature changes
Therefore something
Must have
Brought everything to existence

It's time to talk about Copleston
He thinks there's a necessary being
Nothing inside the universe
Could have brought it into existence

This is the part where I talk about Russell
He believes that humans can't
Understand about the cause
Of the universe

This is because it's all opinion
Because we are observant
Meaning theres no sufficient evidence
Maybe it's all just luck

Cosmological argument
With Aquinas
With Copleston
All about the existence of God
With Russell
With Mackie

This is a very confusing theory
Debating God's existence
Relating to philosophers and
Motion, cause and contingency

This is a short summary of
The cosmological argument
This is all about the existence
Of our dear friend called God

Basically philosophers have different views about whether God is real
Resulting in this argument
All about his existence

Wednesday, 28 January 2015

Kryssie's Cosmological Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA-VgLk6OU8&feature=youtu.be

I realise now that the text is really hard to read so attached is a picture that's more readable.

Cosmological Argument poem

Roses are red,

Violets are blue,

Both once were a seed,

And once pollen, too.

This may be their cause,

But what of the pollen?

And what of the parents

Who grew before them?

Aquinas viewed causes

And got the impression,

That they can’t go on forever,

Causing infinite regression.

Aquinas’ three ways, of

Motion, cause, contingency,

Meant one Unmoved Mover

Must help all else be.

First, all things existing change,

Which we know a posteriori.

Second, nothing causes itself,

Can be learned empirically.

Third, all things rely on others,

Existing contingently.

The cause must be an eternal

Being, existing necessarily.

Coppleston shared a similar view,

Because nothing is its own cause.

A sufficient reason is God,

In universal laws.

Russell argued it’s pointless to

Discuss causes of our universe.

We’ll never know the answer

With so much space to traverse.

Kant also said we are limited

In knowledge to time and space.

Speculating on what’s external to this,

Is pondering a hopeless case.

Hume thought that just because

All in the universe has a cause,

Doesn’t mean that as a whole,

The universe follows this clause.

cosmological argument song 😉😉

The study of the universe,
This is cosmology,
Proving Gods existence,
Through motion, cause, contingency,

MOTION! MOTION! MOTION!

Anything that moves,
Is moved by something else,
There must be a first mover,
As there's no infinite regress

Nothing comes from nothing,
The universe exists,
So something must have made it,
Said good old Aquinas

CAUSE! CAUSE! CAUSE!

All effects have causes,
There's no infinite regress,
There must be a first cause,
God, of course, oh yes

Nothing comes from nothing,
The universe exists,
So something must have made it,
Said good old Aquinas

CONTINGENCY! CONTINGENCY! CONTINGENCY!

All in nature change,
Possibly cease to exist,
Contingent things are made,
From the necessary God

Nothing comes from nothing,
The universe exists,
So something must have made it,
Said good old Aquinas

It's not just Aquinas though,
Copleston and Russell too,
Hume, Mackie and Kenny
With views on cosmology

Nothing comes from nothing,
The universe exists,
So something must have made it,
Said good old Aquinas

Sahar Saiepour

Sorry it's abit cringey 😂

My Cosmological Argument poem

Thursday, 22 January 2015

What I Have Learnt Today...

Aquinas supported the Cosmological Argument and used Aristotle's theory of the Four Causes (formal, final, material and efficient) to support his arguments. David Hume and Russell really don't agree with the argument, because they think that assuming that God is the final and uncaused cause of the universe is not an analytical statement, but an assuming one that can't be proved. So far I think I agree with them #BeQuietAquinas

David hate cosmo

I have learnt that David Humes does not like the cosmological argument - Sahar

Ashley clinch- what i learn today.

Today I learnt about how everything must have a cause and effect in order for it to exist, and I also learnt that he believes that there is an uncaused cause and a being that has existed for eternity so that all contingency beings exist

What Laura Mackie learnt today

Today I have learnt about Aquinas' three ways of proving the existence of God and Hume's reply to the cause of the universe, through the Fallacy of Composition.

I have learnt about infinite regression in depth, and how Aquinas believed that there can not be infinite regression. This is because there must be an end to all the causes and effects, and this is God as the first cause.

Today Shona learned...

Aquinas has three ways to prove God exists; everything is in motion, but the chain of effect can't go on forever, so there must be a first efficient cause because without it, there wouldn't be following causes. Also contingent beings all once didn't exist, but there can't have been a time when nothing existed or else nothing would exist today. Therefore there must be an eternal being.