Complete readings and answer questions
For this homework, you need to do the following: 1. complete the readings, and 2. answer the reading questions.
1. Complete the readings: The are attached in the files
a. Samuel Clarke’s “The Cosmological Argument”
b. David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
2. Answer the reading questions.
Clarke:
clarke cosmological argument reading questions.pdf
Hume:
reading questions hume dialogues concerning natural religion.pdf
20190205132749clarke_cosmological_argument_reading_questions
20190205132754clarke_the_cosmological_argument
20190205132753reading_questions_hume_dialogues_concerning_natural_religion
20190205132758hume_dialogues_concerning_natural_religion_part_2
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In part I, Samuel Clarke seem to be sure that something has always existed in nature. He attributes this to the cause-effect relationship, which asserts that nothing exists without a cause. He argues that if something now is, it is paramount that something always was. He says that all things that are present did not come out of anything, which means that whatever exists must have a cause, purpose, and history behind its existence.
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