Does the Modern Cosmological Argument Convince Us in God’s Existence? Cover Image

Да ли нас нововјековни космолошки аргумент увјерава у постојање Бога?
Does the Modern Cosmological Argument Convince Us in God’s Existence?

Author(s): Siniša Simić
Subject(s): Metaphysics, Theology and Religion, Ontology
Published by: Свети Архијерејски Синод
Keywords: the existence of God; argument; critique; infinite regress; sufficient reason

Summary/Abstract: One of the three main arguments for God’s existence is an a posteriori, deductively valid, cosmological argument. Cosmological arguments start with a simple facts about the world: e. g. there is something in the world, or from more complex facts - that there are contingent beings existing in the world. The thing that exists must have its cause. In this paper I will introduce my interpretation of a modern cosmological argument, Russel’s critique, and then I will try to point out the impossibility of an infinite regress, which leads to defense of sufficient reason and, at the end, the conclusion that the cosmological argument is very persuasive.

  • Issue Year: L/2017
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 335-341
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Serbian