I really don't like Chomsky's babble. He doesn't use coherent arguments and he hardly gives any clear examples. Yes, I proudly admit that I like Harris and Hitchens, but my 'worshipping' is not even close to that of the Chomskyists. They like Chomsky because you can always predict his views. The conclusion is: It's always the fault of the 'system', the West and US foreign policy. I don't even bother listening to the guy anymore.
I have seen this new version of the Cosmological Argument spread around and I have to say there are some gaping issues with it I'd like to address. I'll put my critique in the next post. For now, here is the original argument:
1. Causation exists.( Empirical Premise) 2. Act and Potency are terms that we can use to explain causation: When something is in Potency it has the capacity to become something something else, but is not it yet. A fertilized egg has the potency to turn into a chick, an unfertilized egg does not. When a potency is realized, it is actual. To actualize a potency is to take property that something had in potency and make it actually inhere in the thing. 3. When we find an instance of causation in the world we find some potency being actualized. 4. Something that is only in potency cannot actualize anything. 5. For some potency to be actualized something actual must actualize it. 6. If A is actualized by B, then B must first be actual. 7. Either something must have actualized B from being in potency to be in actuality. Or B is either necessarily actual, having never been in potency before. ( A v B) 8. If the left disjunct “A” is true then premise 7 applies to C. 9. If disjunct “B” is true there is a “first” uncaused cause that is pure actuality. 10. If disjunct “B” is never the case then there is an infinite series of actualizations. With every being having its actuality derived from another being. 11. If “10” is the case then there can be no actualization, as every being in the series has its actuality derived from another being, but there is no being with actuality on it's own to derive the actuality from. 12. If “10” is the case there is no causation 13. There is causation ( from premise 1) 14. Premise “10” is not the case. 15. If premise 10 is not the case, then at some point in the series “9” is the case. 16. There is a first cause, which is a being of pure actuality.
human, American personalities are based on products, has it always been like this? Or has capitalism shifted the way humanity thinks to the point we can only be of worth through making others know what products we buy?
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