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cosmological argument

Form of argument used in natural theology to prove the existence of God. Thomas Aquinas, in his Summa theologiae, presented two versions of the cosmological argument: the first-cause argument and the argument from contingency. The first-cause argument begins with the fact that there is change in the world, and a change is always the effect of some cause or causes. Each cause is itself the effect of a further cause or set of causes; this chain moves in a series that either never ends or is completed by a first cause, which must be of a radically different nature in that it is not itself caused. Such a first cause is an important aspect, though not the entirety, of what Christianity means by God. The argument from contingency follows by another route a similar basic movement of thought from the nature of the world to its ultimate ground.

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Instead the brain is portrayed as the uncaused cause, a boss sitting in the head interpreting and giving directives--what Pronko (1987, 1988) called "self-action.

The Cambridge handbook of consciousness by Smith, Noel W. / The Psychological Record

Jurgen Moltmann and Jon Sobrino maintain that divine compassion suffers with victims, but Davies holds to the Thomistic claim that God as the uncaused cause cannot himself be caused to change and so cannot be said to suffer.

Not a Supernatural Boy Scout by Pope, Stephen / Commonweal

129) Considered as so many performative enactments, executions actively participate in constituting the state that is then (mis)taken to be the uncaused cause, the original author, of these same deeds; and, in doing that, executions help to fashion a state that can plausibly affirm its capacity to fulfill the traditional prerogatives of sovereignty.

When the State Kills: Capital Punishment and the American Condition by Kaufman-Osborn, Timothy V. / Yale Law Journal

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