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State and assess two different objections to the cosmological argument
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State and assess two different objections to the cosmological argument In this essay I will look at the following form of the cosmological argument: (1) Every being has a cause (2) the world as a whole has a cause (3) there must exist a necessary first cause who brought about the world Firstly, I will look at the objections to the jump from (1) to (2); namely, it is wrong to jump from every being in the world having cause to the world as a whole having a cause. It is wrong to make this jump because our concept of cause is based on our view of 'particular things' (Bertrund Russell)1 and not the whole. Similarly there could not be an infinite series of individual contingent beings ; on this view there is no need for the world as a whole to be contingent. Secondly I will examine the objections to (3); I will agree...
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