This is painstaking work, but Feser seems to love what he is doing. The author presents five (classic) proofs for the existence of God, gives reasons people sometimes oppose those arguments, and refutes the arguments against. For that matter, it would also depend on its parts even if it had not existed always, and not been assembled over time either, but instead came into existence altogether and all at once. Edward Feser spends much fruitful effort examining the arguments. For instance, even if a certain chair had always existed, it would still be true that its existence presupposes that its parts exist and are put together in the right way. Moreover, a composite thing would be less fundamental than its parts in the relevant sense even if it had never come into existence but somehow had always existed. Rather, they all develop together as cells divide while you gestate within the womb. In the case of the human body, for example, it isn’t that the arms, legs, eyes, and ears all come into existence first and are then assembled into a body. For example, the parts of a chair are made first and then assembled into a chair. You might think that this has essentially to do with there being some point in time at which the parts are not assembled into the whole, and then later on they are so assembled. And a composite is less fundamental than its parts in the sense that its existence presupposes that its parts exist and are put together in the right way. So, the things of our experience are composite, or composed of parts.
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