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    [doi] => 10.24204/ejpr.v4i2.302
    [datePublished] => 2012-06-21
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A Cosmo-Ontological Argument for the Existence of a First Cause - Perhaps God

Uwe
University of Augsburg

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24204/ejpr.v4i2.302

Abstract

The paper presents a new version of the "Cosmological Argument" – considered to be an ontological argument, since it exclusively uses ontological concepts and principles. It employs famous results of modern physics, and distinguishes between event-causation and agent-causation. Due to these features, the argument manages to avoid the objection of infinite regress. It remains true, however, that the conclusion of the argument (just like the conclusion of Thomas Aquinas’s causal argument) is too unspecific to be unambiguously considered an argument for the existence of God.

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