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It could therefore be said that the cosmological argument can work on the assumption that the cause of existing things is not a thing, in which case the above contradiction would disappear.46 The Kalam argument depends on assumptions that can be rejected, for instance: that every event has a cause;
Anselm went on to prove that God must exist in reality too since he exists in our thoughts. Anselm used the analogy of how a painter imagines beforehand what he wants to paint. The painter has in his understanding what he has not yet made but does not yet understand that it is.
* He does not believe that God exists. Anselm's goal is to show that this combination is unstable. Anyone who understands what it means to say that God exists can be led to see that God does exist. On this view, the atheist is not just mistaken: his position is internally inconsistent.
We can conclude that the greatest thing would be that God exists in BOTH mind and reality, thus, proving existence of God. In a reply to St Anselm's argument, philosopher Guanilo used the analogy of an Island. In this he states that: 'I can conceive of the most perfect island.'
Although this strength shows that not just one group of people can follow virtue ethics and since not everyone can follow these rules, it is versatile so can be changed to suit everyone's needs. A strength such as it centres ethics on the person and what it means to be
He would not be perfect or "that than which nothing greater can be conceived, "because something would have been able to have created and destroy him. He said that God's existence is either necessary or impossible. You cannot say that God exists then say that it is impossible because you would be contradicting yourself.
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
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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