The Ontological Argument
- Created by: Jenny Jones
- Created on: 07-01-15 13:58
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- Ontological Argument - Anslem
- Priori - knowledge gained through reason
- Analytical statement
- impossible to think false
- Synthetic statement
- truth or falsity depends on evidence you have
- 1st argument
- 1) God is a being that than which nothing greater can be conceived
- 2) something that exists is bound to be greater than the thought
- 3) no greater being than God. God must exist i reality as well as in thought
- 2nd argument
- god can be thought as not existing?
- god cannot be thought as not existing?
- has to be this one which is greater
- god cannot be thought as not existing?
- believes this logically proves God's existence = necessary
- god can be thought as not existing?
- Guanilo criticism - On Behal of the Fool
- 1) impossible to think of fully perfect being
- 2) argues you cannot demonstrate existence of something by an idea about it
- 3)'the perfect island'
- Anslems' comeback (rejoinder)
- cannot compare God with island bc not the same thing
- island is contingent (doesn't have to exist)
- God = necessary being, necessary beings must exist
- existence part of concept of God
- impossible for God not to exist bc necessary
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- argument = "charming joke"
- bc predicate 'God exists' is already hidden in the subject
- Kants criticisms
- 1st
- Existence is not a real predicate bc doesn't add anything to our understanding
- 2nd
- agrees with Decartes triangle. BUT can reject BOTH
- cannot accept notion of unicorn (subject) yet reject idea it has a horn (predicate)
- cannot talk of God (subject) yet reject his necessary existence (predicate)
- cannot accept notion of unicorn (subject) yet reject idea it has a horn (predicate)
- agrees with Decartes triangle. BUT can reject BOTH
- 1st
- Descartes ontological argument
- "existence can no more be separated from the essence of God than having three angles be separated from the essence of a trainagle"
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