Majesty of Reason | 20 Cosmological Arguments: An Analysis @MajestyofReason | Uploaded June 2022 | Updated October 2024, 14 hours ago.
From Aquinas to Leibniz to Pruss and Rasmussen, cosmological arguments have a long and formidable pedigree. I this video, I analyze twenty such arguments for God's existence.

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RESOURCES

100+ Argument Resource Document: docs.google.com/document/d/1qWHRyegTNlBXC9Bupxl2ZSmEUTeXvi0KEeg0W0VW288/edit?usp=sharing

OUTLINE

0:00 Intro
0:22 Aquinas’ First Way
16:04 Aquinas’ Second Way
18:27 Aquinas’ Third Way
26:05 Samuel Clarke-ish
31:38 Leibniz’s CA
45:43 Leibnizian CA: Davis-Craig
49:44 Leibnizian CA: Pruss
1:02:49 The Gale-Pruss CA
1:24:48 CA without the PSR
1:31:28 Koons’ CA
1:41:41 Pruss and Rasmussen’s Contingency CA
1:43:13 Emanuel Rutten's Atomistic CA
1:46:30 The Kalam CA
2:03:28 Alexander Pruss’ Kalam CA
2:04:03 Swinburne’s Inductive CA
2:13:54 Scotus’ Modal CA
2:16:26 James Ross’ Modal CA
2:20:59 Christopher Weaver’s Modal CA
2:21:46 Rasmussen and Weaver’s CA
2:24:54 Pruss and Rasmussen’s Modal CA
2:28:35 Descartes’ CA
2:34:25 THE Cosmological Argument

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