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Ancient & Medieval Philosophy -- David L. Rouse

• The second argument is from efficient causality.
  • Everything caused must have a cause which preceded it.
  • The chain of causality cannot be infinite, for then there would be no first cause, and if no first cause, then no effect.
  • Therefore there must be some first efficient cause, and that is God.

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