Published: 2021-07-31

The Argument “from Finitude” as a Variant of the Cosmological Justification of the Existence of God

Marek Łagosz
Studia Philosophiae Christianae
Section: Papers
https://doi.org/10.21697/spch.2021.57.A.03

Abstract

In this paper I examine a variant of the cosmological argument for the existence of God – the ‘proof from finitude’, and develop Georg W.F. Hegel’s intuitions on this issue. In conclusion, I point out the danger of confusing the cognitive order (the finite as a premise for “proving” the reality of the infinite) with the ontic order (the presumed dependence of the infinite – especially as realised in God – on the finite).

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Received: 30/10/2020. Reviewed: 17/12/2020. Accepted: 24/04/2021

Keywords:

finite, infinite, eternal, from eternal, finitism, infinitism, God, the Good

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Łagosz, M. (2021). The Argument “from Finitude” as a Variant of the Cosmological Justification of the Existence of God. Studia Philosophiae Christianae, 57(1), 47–72. https://doi.org/10.21697/spch.2021.57.A.03

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