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:

  1. What are Aquinas' five arguments?
  2. What is a cosmological argument?
  3. What is an infinite regress?
  4. What does it mean to say that God is a unmoved mover and an uncaused cause?
  5. What is a necessary and contingent being?
  6. What objection applies to all of Aquinas' arguments?
  7. What does it mean to say and argument is self-defeating?