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The Principle of Sufficient Reason
"Nothing happens without a reason."
Does anyone doubt this?
Does anyone have reason to doubt this?
Let's hear your reason.
Below please find six links to articles explaining the Principle of Sufficient Reason -- you need read only one.
https://www3.nd.edu/~jspeaks/courses/2008-9/10100-spring/_LECTURES/5 - Leibniz.pdf
Principle of Sufficient Reason (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Sufficient reason, principle of - New World Encyclopedia
Sufficient Reason, Principle of Sufficient Reason
The Principle of Sufficient Reason
https://scholarship.rice.edu/bitstream/handle/1911/8938/article_RI281024.pdf
The Principle of Sufficient Reason is a fourth law of thought, as fundamental to human thought as the principle of non-contradiction.
Indeed, the Principle of Sufficient Reason entails that there must be a sufficient reason for the existence of the universe.
Argument
If nothing happens without a reason, then the event that started the universe has a reason.
If the event that started the universe has a reason, then the reason for the event must lie outside the universe.
If the reason for the event that started the universe must lie outside the universe, then that reason is super-universal.
We call that super-universal reason God.
Comments?
Counter-arguments?
Concessions?
"Nothing happens without a reason."
Does anyone doubt this?
Does anyone have reason to doubt this?
Let's hear your reason.
Below please find six links to articles explaining the Principle of Sufficient Reason -- you need read only one.
https://www3.nd.edu/~jspeaks/courses/2008-9/10100-spring/_LECTURES/5 - Leibniz.pdf
Principle of Sufficient Reason (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Sufficient reason, principle of - New World Encyclopedia
Sufficient Reason, Principle of Sufficient Reason
The Principle of Sufficient Reason
https://scholarship.rice.edu/bitstream/handle/1911/8938/article_RI281024.pdf
The Principle of Sufficient Reason is a fourth law of thought, as fundamental to human thought as the principle of non-contradiction.
Indeed, the Principle of Sufficient Reason entails that there must be a sufficient reason for the existence of the universe.
Argument
If nothing happens without a reason, then the event that started the universe has a reason.
If the event that started the universe has a reason, then the reason for the event must lie outside the universe.
If the reason for the event that started the universe must lie outside the universe, then that reason is super-universal.
We call that super-universal reason God.
Comments?
Counter-arguments?
Concessions?