Ontological Argument
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- Ontological Argument
- Anselm's First Form
- God is the greatest being that can be conceived.
- If God exists only in the mind, then something greater could exist, both in the mind and real life.
- Therefore God exists.
- If God exists only in the mind, then something greater could exist, both in the mind and real life.
- God is the greatest being that can be conceived.
- Anselm's Second Form
- God is the greatest possible being.
- It is better to be necessary than contingent.
- Therefore God exists.
- It is better to be necessary than contingent.
- God is the greatest possible being.
- Gaunilo's Criticism
- 'On Behalf of the Fool' A fool can say something, that doesn't make it real.
- The Perfect Island
- I can imagine a perfect island, of which nothing greater can be conceived. This does not make it real though.
- You can't define something into existence.
- Descartes
- God is perfection and contains all other perfections.
- Existence is a perfection.
- Therefore God is not separate from existence and he exists.
- Existence is a perfection.
- The triangle and it's three angles are not separate.
- Therefore God is not separate from existence and he exists.
- God is perfection and contains all other perfections.
- Malcolm
- God is either necessary or impossible.
- It goes against the definition of God for him to be impossible.
- Therefore God exists and is necessary.
- It goes against the definition of God for him to be impossible.
- God is either necessary or impossible.
- Plantinga
- There an infinite amount of worlds. In one of these worlds exists the greatest being.
- The greatest being is omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent.
- The greatest being exists in all worlds and is God.
- Therefore God exists.
- The greatest being is omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent.
- There an infinite amount of worlds. In one of these worlds exists the greatest being.
- Kant
- Existence and God may co-exist but that does not make them both real.
- Descartes, "It would be self-contridictory to posit a triangle and yet reject it's three angles, but there is not a contradiction in rejecting the triangle together with it's three angles."
- Descartes, "It would be self-contridictory to posit a triangle and yet reject it's three angles, but there is not a contradiction in rejecting the triangle together with it's three angles."
- Existence and God may co-exist but that does not make them both real.
- Hume
- Thinking that something exists doesn't require it's existence.
- Russell
- The ontological argument only adds to our definition of God, it doesn't prove anything.
- Mackie
- It is two different things for a concept to be real and existing and for a concept to be thought up.
- Anselm's First Form
- Ontological means 'concerned with being'.
- Analytical proposition -Something that givens no new information about a topic because the descriptor is the definition.
- A Priori, uses reason not empirical evidence.
- Analytical proposition -Something that givens no new information about a topic because the descriptor is the definition.
- For example, a widow is someone who's husband died.
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