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Full Idea
All thinkers agree that the world had a beginning, but some claim that, having come into existence, it is everlasting.
Gist of Idea
Everyone agrees that the world had a beginning, but thinkers disagree over whether it will end
Source
Aristotle (On the Heavens [c.336 BCE], 279b12)
Book Ref
'The First Philosophers', ed/tr. Waterfield,Robin [OUP 2000], p.42
| 273 | Movement is transmitted through everything, and it must have started with self-generated motion [Plato] |
| 148 | If the prime origin is destroyed, it will not come into being again out of anything [Plato] |
| 308 | If the cosmos is an object of perception then it must be continually changing [Plato] |
| 1498 | Everyone agrees that the world had a beginning, but thinkers disagree over whether it will end [Aristotle] |
| 613 | Even if the world is caused by fate, mind and nature are still prior causes [Aristotle] |
| 619 | Something which both moves and is moved is intermediate, so it follows that there must be an unmoved mover [Aristotle] |
| 620 | The first mover is necessary, and because it is necessary it is good [Aristotle] |
| 5977 | Heaven and earth must be created, because they are subject to change [Augustine] |
| 21108 | The universe is precisely 13.72 billion years old [Krauss] |
| 16581 | Scholastic authors agree that matter was created by God, out of nothing [Pasnau] |