The Ontological Argument
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- Created on: 10-04-13 13:40
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- The ontological argument
- a priori by a logical deductive argument
- Anselm
- 3. Therefore god cannot be thought of as non-existent as that would make it less great a being than one that exists
- 2. The idea exists in his understanding but it would be greater if it existed in reality
- 4. The fool can only say "there is no god" because he understand the words but =not the thing itself
- 1. "a being than which none greater can be thought"
- 5. It is impossible to think of God not existing as we cannot conceive of him having a beginning and an end
- Book=Psalms
- Guanilo's objections
- The same reasoning can be used for anything even a perfect "island"
- Anselm argues argument only applies to God , as to be the most perfect being existence is necessary
- The same reasoning can be used for anything even a perfect "island"
- Aquinas's view
- The existence of God may be self-evident, but not self evident to us
- Atheists like the fool in Psalms deny the first premise that there is a being by which there is none greater
- Descartes version
- agrees and expands upon Anselm by describing god as "supremely perfect" rather than "greater"
- Hume's objections
- Logic never proves anything, experience is necessary
- Kant's objections
- Existance is not a real predicate
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