A-Level - Cosmological Argument

The Cosmological argument has been presented by...

• St Thomas Aquinas

• St Anselm of Canterbury

• Aristotle

• St Augustine of Hippo

How many 'ways' does Aquinas present as proofs of God?

• 5

• 3

• 2

• 6

How many of Aquinas' ways are cosmological arguments?

• 3

• 2

• 1

• 5

The AQA exam board wants you to know, in detail, Aquinas'...

• 3rd way

• 1st way

• 2nd way

• 4th way

• 5th way

What type of argument is Aquinas' third way? (select multiple options then press submit at the bottom)

• a priori

• a posteriori

• inductive

• deductive

What type of statements does the cosmological argument use?

• synthetic

• analytic

The cosmological argument is written in Aquinas' book...

• Summa Theologica

• Proslogion

• Fear and Trembling

• The Republic

Aquinas starts with evidence in the universe, that all things are...

• contingent

• necessary

• caused

• moved by a mover

A contingent thing...

• doesn't have to exist

• has to exist

• is caused by God

• is moved by God

The universe is therefore also contingent, so at one point nothing existed. This means there must be a...

• necessary being

• contingent being

• uncaused causer

• unmoved mover