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cosmological argument
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cosmological argument
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(Philosophy) Philosophy one of the arguments that purport to prove the existence of God from empirical facts about the universe, esp the argument to the existence of a first cause Compare ontological argument [1] teleological argument


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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.
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.
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.
 
 
 
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