Video: Aquinas and the Cosmological Arguments
Instructions:
Watch the following video on Aquinas. You may use the information in this video on the quiz, the discussion board, and in your essays.
While watching this short (10:26) video, take notes and think about the following questions:
- What are Aquinas' five arguments?
- What is a cosmological argument?
- What is an infinite regress?
- What does it mean to say that God is a unmoved mover and an uncaused cause?
- What is a necessary and contingent being?
- What objection applies to all of Aquinas' arguments?
- What does it mean to say and argument is self-defeating?