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Analysis Of St. Thomas Aquinas Cosmological Argument

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The Cosmological argument is an argument that is put forward by the Christian Philosopher named St. Thomas Aquinas (who was around between the times of 1225-1274). This argument was made as an attempt in order to prove the existence of God. However, Aquinas had always had strong belief in God, this therefore meant that instead of trying to prove his existence, it was more as if he was trying to solidify his established faith that’s based on reason, through looking at the cause of the Universe. Due to this, Aquinas claims that this is the work of God.
The word ‘cosmological’ practically explains what the argument is about. The first part of the word ‘Cosmos’ relates to the world or the universe, therefore, it means that the Cosmological Argument is one talking about the come bouts of the world/universe around us, and it also argues for the existence of God. This argument looks at the universe around us and it seeks explanations for the reason it exists. The Cosmological Argument attempts to prove that God exists. This is done by showing that there cannot …show more content…

In our world, cause and effect are perfectly natural and have always been as it is an everlasting cycle. Whatever happens will always be caused by something else. If one was to say that that something was able to cause itself as it would mean that it was already there before it had begun. The reason this would be a logical impossibility is because in order for something to cause there must be a necessary being beforehand, meaning that there needs to be a first cause. In this case, it is called God. Aquinas identified a series of cause as well as effects in the universe. He however rejected the idea of an idea of infinite series of causes as he believed that there must have been a first uncaused cause. This first uncaused cause would have started the change of other causes that then would have resulted in all events happening. This first cause was

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