Richard Taylor's Cosmological Argument Essay

Richard Taylor’s Cosmological Argument consists of many aspects that explain conditions in which God, the universe, the earth and all the other planets, and the living beings of Earth, exist. As Taylor stated there is really only a sufficient reason as to why something exists in which he follows up by stating that the universe requires an explanation as to why it exists. This means though people who don’t really think about why the universe does exist or how it exists, but there is a reason as to how it came to be or why it exists. This is where sufficient reason comes in. It helps give an explanation to something that exists. Taylor’s argument is then followed by the concepts of everything existing either contingently or necessarily. This

Carefully analyzing this term we know that sufficient is just another word to say ample or enough reasoning to something. Many things that do exist have more than enough information to better understand that something, but some things have bare minimum information that we cannot consider sufficient enough. In the context of this argument, the principle of sufficient reason mandates that everything that exists requires explanation (Taylor: 101). This reasoning helps us give answers to all the “why this?” or “how?” questions that linger in our brains. Taylor’s explanation of Cosmological argument in his chapter “God”, states that sufficient reason gives “...some sort of explanation, known or unknown, for everything.” (Taylor: 101) In the previous paragraph I talked about how some things are contingent to one another while other things depend only upon themselves, in which some truths depend on this (Taylor: 101). So is this principle of sufficient reason enough to explain intangible things such as the Universe or God? Taylor states that this principle does not need to entail some purpose nor any goals for everything. It is more to give a reason than proving something (Taylor