Powers, possibility, and the essential cosmological argument

One classical version of cosmological argument, defended famously by Thomas Aquinas and Duns Scotus, deduces the existence of a First Cause from the existence of a particular sort of causal series: one that is ‘essentially ordered’. This argument has received renewed defence in recent work by Feser...

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Main Author: Cook, Ben (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2022
In: Religious studies
Year: 2022, Volume: 58, Issue: 4, Pages: 745-758
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Cosmological proof of God's existence / Power / Possibility / Causality / Essentialism
RelBib Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
NBC Doctrine of God
Further subjects:B Causation
B Powers
B Cosmological Argument
B Possibility
B essential order
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