Since the beginning of time, people have believed in a higher being. Most recently in the last few thousands of years many believe and have refuted the existence of God. The argument of the existence of God will go on until human-kind cease to exist. Everyone has their own opinion on this topic and have reasoning to support their claims. One of many groups of the argument for the existence of God are the Cosmological Arguments. Some of the main supporters for the Cosmological argument were Spinoza, Aristotle, Plato, Aquinas, and Averroes. Each theorist structured their argument by beginning with the empirical fact that the universe exist and conclude with their argument by explaining why God was responsible for it.
Aristotle was a firm believer of that all movement depends of there being a mover. Movement
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Aristotle claimed that everything eternal must be good because there is no defect to something that exist necessarily. Badness is caused by the lack of something, a something that has to be there, which Aristotle claimed that God most perfectly has. One huge proponent that Aristotle claims is that God exist but doesn’t know the physical world we live in today. God only knows about himself, God is not affected by us or has any plans for us with this claim it can show why God is never changing. Baruch Spinoza is one of the most radical philosophers in history. Spinoza uses the combination of Cartesian metaphysics and epistemological principles in his thinking which leads to his extreme naturalistic view on God. Spinoza pictures God as the infinite, necessarily existing, and a unique substance in the universe. Spinoza and Descartes have a similar argument on the existence of the universe, mainly using substances to explain. Where they differ is Spinoza believes there’s only one substance whereas Descartes believes there are two or three if you include God. The only substance in the universe is God, everything