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Aristotle's Argument for God - Edward Feser

Theologian

Edward Feser


Duration

93.14


Uploaded to YouTube

17 December 2023

Added to Database

21 March 2026


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  • VIDEO NOTES

Edward Feser is an American Catholic philosopher, and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pasadena City College in California.

He is the author of "Five Proofs of the Existence of God", and in this episode speaks about one of these: the Aristotelean argument from motion.

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  • TIMESTAMPS

0:00 The argument from motion - what is change?
14:54 Linear vs hierarchical causation
21:34 Establishing the unmoved mover
35:00 Objection 1: is "potential" just nothing?
40:52 Objection 2: the infinity problem
1:10:41 Objection 3: there is no purely actual thing
1:20:35 Objection 4: B theory of time

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