Aquinas and the Cosmological Arguments: Crash Course Philosophy #10

Our unit on the philosophy of religion and the existence of god continues with Thomas Aquinas. Today, we consider his first four arguments: the cosmological arguments. -- Images and video...

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Crash Course Philosophy is brought to you by Squarespace.Squarespace: share your passion with the world.Nothing gets people talking like proving the existence of God -- just look at the comments on our last video.And that is what Anselm of Canterbury did. He claimed, in the 11th century,to have come up with deductive proof of God’s existence, through what we now know as the ontological argument.And, if there was such a thing as a social network of medieval Christian philosophersback then, it was positively abuzz with the news. For a long time. Because, almost 200years later, Italian theologian and philosopher Thomas Aquinas encountered Anselm’s argument.But, like many others, he just didn’t buy it.Aquinas did believe in God. It was just that, as a philosopher, he fe...