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Single Idea 148

[filed under theme 27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 3. The Beginning ]

Full Idea

If the prime origin is destroyed, it will not come into being again out of anything.

Gist of Idea

If the prime origin is destroyed, it will not come into being again out of anything

Source

Plato (Phaedrus [c.366 BCE], 245d)

Book Ref

Plato: 'Phaedrus and Letters VII and VIII', ed/tr. Hamilton,Walter [Penguin 1973], p.49

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A Reaction

This is the essence of Aquinas's Third Way of proving God's existence.