The Ontological Argument
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- Created on: 24-02-15 21:32
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- The Ontological Argument
- Descartes
- Argued that existence was a predicate of God, its part of his nature
- God is a supreme being
- Perfection is a predicate of God's existence.
- It's immutable that God exists, therefore he is perfect
- Perhaps God is a different case to a triangle
- Anselm
- Proslogian 2
- God is the being that which nothing greater can be conceived
- Otherwise something greater could be concieved
- Proslogian 3
- There is necessary and contingent existence.
- It is impossible for God not to exist, as existence is one of God's predicates
- Proslogian 2
- Gaunilo
- He used the example of the island to challenge Anselm
- You cannot apply Anselm's reasoning to other objects.
- He stresses that existence is a precept of perfection
- Gaunilo believed it was too much of a leap from God is the greatest conceivable being, therefore he must exist.
- Kant
- Existence is not a predicate.
- We can think of a triangle, and reject the existence of it.
- Existence is not a key definition.
- Existence doesn't make a object better, it doesn't add anything to it
- Descartes
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