Read the extract provided from Bertrand Russell’s “Why I am not a Christian” and evaluate Russell’s attempt to refute arguments like Aquinas’s First Way. In doing this, be sure the essay addresses the following questions: Is Bertrand Russell right that this argument fallaciously argues that everything must have a cause and then arbitrarily excludes God from this regression?
How would Aquinas respond to the claim that God also needs a cause? Is this response successful?
Focus on the “First Way” from ST I Q. 2. A. 3, since this is the argument Russell is attacking in the extract. (page 15)
This essay needs to be written in simple words and its basically asking Does Russell interpret or represent Aquinas correctly, Does Russell’s get Aquinas right?, Is Russell’s objection accurate or not? and the answer is “no”. One of the main reason being because Russell claims if everything has a cause then God must have a cause. However, Aquinas never said “Everything has a cause”. So, try to focus on that and explain in the essay how Russell misinterprets Aquinas’s claim.
BOTH RUSSELLS AND AQUINAS’S READING ARE ATTACHED BELOW!
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