The Cosmological Argument

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/The_Cosmological_Argument

GPTKB entity

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:philosophy
gptkbp:criticizedFor	gptkb:Bertrand_Russell gptkb:David_Hume gptkb:Immanuel_Kant
gptkbp:debatedBy	gptkb:Christopher_Hitchens gptkb:Richard_Dawkins gptkb:William_Lane_Craig contemporary philosophy medieval philosophy
gptkbp:field	gptkb:philosophy metaphysics
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	The Cosmological Argument
gptkbp:influenced	gptkb:philosophy Christian apologetics Islamic apologetics
gptkbp:influencedBy	gptkb:Islamic_jurisprudence gptkb:theology Aristotelian metaphysics
gptkbp:languageOfOrigin	gptkb:Arabic gptkb:Greek gptkb:Latin
gptkbp:mainFormulation	Kalam Cosmological Argument Leibnizian Cosmological Argument Thomistic Cosmological Argument
gptkbp:notableFigure	gptkb:Aristotle gptkb:Leibniz gptkb:Plato gptkb:Thomas_Aquinas gptkb:Al-Ghazali Kalam school
gptkbp:opposedBy	Multiverse theory Infinite regress Brute fact hypothesis Quantum mechanics objections
gptkbp:originatedIn	gptkb:ancient_Greece
gptkbp:plotSummary	The universe has a cause
gptkbp:premise	Everything that begins to exist has a cause The universe began to exist
gptkbp:proposedBy	existence of God
gptkbp:publishedIn	gptkb:Summa_Theologica The Kalam Cosmological Argument (book by William Lane Craig)
gptkbp:relatedArgument	Ontological Argument Teleological Argument
gptkbp:relatedConcept	gptkb:Unmoved_Mover gptkb:Necessary_Being First Cause Contingency
gptkbp:type	a posteriori argument
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:William_Rowe gptkb:William_L._Rowe
gptkbp:bfsLayer	8