The Cosmological Argument

This book provides a comprehensive critical study of the oldest and mostfamous argument for the existence of God the Cosmological Argument. WilliamL. Rowe exam... » 

This book provides a comprehensive critical study of the oldest and mostfamous argument for the existence of God the Cosmological Argument. WilliamL. Rowe examines and interprets historically significant versions of theargument from Aquinas to Samuel Clarke and explores the major objections thathave been advanced against it.Beginning with analyses of the Cosmological Argument as expressed by Aquinasand Duns Scotus in the thirteenth century the author seeks to uncoverclarify and critically explore the philosophical concepts and thesis essentialto the reasoning exhibited in the principal versions of the CosmologicalArgument. The major focus of the book is on the form that the argument takes inthe eighteenth century principally in the writings of Samuel Clarke. Theauthor concludes with a discussion of the extent to which the CosmologicalArgument may provide a justification for belief in God. «