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The Philosophical Journey, 2/e
William Lawhead, The University of Mississippi
The Search for God
The Cosmological Argument for God
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1
The "first cause" argument is a version of the
argument for the existence of God.
2
The 13th century thinker St. Thomas
presented a collection of arguments for the existence of God known as "the 5 ways."
3
The principle of
is the principle that everything that exists must have a reason that explains why it exists and why it has the properties that it does.
4
A
being is a being whose existence depends on something outside itself, such that neither its existence nor its nonexistence is logically necessary.
5
A being that contains the reason for its existence within its own nature is a
being.
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