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In this video I explain one of Dr. Edward Feser's arguments for God from his book "Five Proofs of the Existence of God," the "Rationalist Proof." I propose this argument as a stronger version of the argument from contingency, and show why it is uniquely immune to certain objections against that family of arguments.
0:00 Intro
0:39 The Fallacy of Composition
2:17 Contingent vs. Necessary Explained
6:20 Can contingency explain itself?
8:50 Hierarchical vs. Linear Causal Series
12:25 Contingency = a Hierarchal Causal Series
14:38 Necessary Being = God
Link to my video on the Argument from Contingency:
- • Why is There Something...
Link to my video on Aquinas' Third Way, another version of the Contingency Argument:
- • Does God Exist?: Aquin...
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