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by spiltteeth
Fri Jun 07, 2019 6:19 pm
Forum: Philosophy of Religion
Topic: How does one answer Schopenhauer’s critique of the cosmological argument ? 

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How does one answer Schopenhauer’s critique of the cosmological argument ? 


Classical theists make the argument for God from the contingent to the absolute, or from the conditioned to the unconditioned, like Aquinas’s 3rd way. 

 A devotee of Schopenhauer, I imagine, would make 3 points. 
1) You cannot apply our notions of causality beyond physical reality. 2) We only know ...