Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God
October 11, 2014 at 1:50 pm
(This post was last modified: October 11, 2014 at 1:53 pm by Dolorian.)
Wondering what some of the folks here think about his argument.
Ed Feser makes an argument for God by starting with change; using a hierarchical series of causes as opposed to a linear series (he even admits that a linear series could well be infinite, having no first member). What the argument seeks to establish is that at any given moment, the universe stands in need of being kept in existence by God (ie. the water is held up by the cup which is held up by the table which is itself held up by the floor, which in turn is held up by the earth, etc, all the way to God).
Feser makes this argument (more elaborately) in the first 30 minutes of this video. He also addresses some objections to the argument there:
Ed Feser makes an argument for God by starting with change; using a hierarchical series of causes as opposed to a linear series (he even admits that a linear series could well be infinite, having no first member). What the argument seeks to establish is that at any given moment, the universe stands in need of being kept in existence by God (ie. the water is held up by the cup which is held up by the table which is itself held up by the floor, which in turn is held up by the earth, etc, all the way to God).
Feser makes this argument (more elaborately) in the first 30 minutes of this video. He also addresses some objections to the argument there:
