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If we are talking about God, and if we regard God as the source of existing things, then we could say that God is not a being. Another way of making this point is to deny that the cause of existing things is in a genus or is a genus.
achievement, why not multiple world?; however the parody remains, and it would seem that the ontological argument presented by Anselm and Descartes could be used for means they did not intend.
Therefore, it is necessarily true that an omniscient, omnipotent and perfectly good being exists. Therefore, an omniscient, omnipotent and perfectly good being exists. As well as strengths, the above philosophers have bought about many criticisms to the ontological argument. An example of such is by St Aquinas, who makes a
It seemed logical to conclude that to argue that there is no God, even the fool must understand the concept of God. Since the greatest thought must have an equivalent reality to be greater than even the least significant thing in reality for God to be the greatest thought, God must exist.
human may go some way to making such a weakness obsolete because as it focuses on the person and not the action it may mean that someone may commit a murder but instead of looking at the action they only focuses on the person which is dire, if you are
The idea that it was designed implies a designer. "When we come to inspect the watch, we perceive that its several parts are framed and put together for a purpose...the inference, we think, is inevitable, that the watch must have had a maker" To argue that the world must have
Whilst the Teleological Argument is derived from the general pattern of order in the universe, the argument from Providence, by contrast, argues from the provision of the needs of intelligent beings within the universe. A.E. Taylor put forward the classical form of the Argument from Providence, although it should be noted that Swinburne also has such an argument.
Kant?s main criticism against the Ontological argument is that he, unlike Anselm and Descartes, does not see existence as a real predicate, ?? Being is obviously not a real predicate??. He explains that existing is no perfection, like Descartes has previously stated, because it cannot be listed in a description
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