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Ontological argument- arguement for god based on reason - Coggle Diagram
Ontological argument- arguement for god based on reason
Posteriori- teleological and cosmological argument
Priori- ontological arguement argues through logic
Anselm’s ontological argument aims to explain that god is the best thing that can be thought of
“That than which nothing greater can be conceived (imagined)”
God can exist in your mind alone or in reality as well
Something which exists in reality and in the mind is greater than something that exists as an idea in the mind alone
To breakdown the ontological arguement - you must criticse the 3 premises.
challenges
Gaunilos 3 ways why existance is not a predicate of god
Defininf things into existance, you cant demonstrate the existance of something by having an idea of it
Just because it is perfect within your mind doesn’t mean it is perfect in reality
Gossip- all sorts are in my mind not all of them exist in reality
Anselm replies to Gaunilos response- he guests that he missed the point, god is a special case, god isn’t a perfect thing like an island, god is the perfect thing, islands can always be improved god cannot.
God is not contingent like an island, contingent things can be thought of as not existing, god has necessary existence, since it is greater to be a necessary being than a contingent one.
Kants challenges god can exist in your mind alone and reality aswell
Existance does not function as a predicate, existance cannot be gained you wouldn’t describe someone as existing.
Kant is arguing that Anselm’s example of god being an analytic statement and saying it is a synthetic statement
Anselm’s arguement was a reply to the fool who suggested there was no god, he provided the ‘reduction to the absurd’ of an atheist position. This is basically even if an atheist has god in their mind but they dont believe in him he must exist because they know of him. Must exist in mind and reality
Anselm saw existance as a predicate of god, a description or attribute that tells is something about the subject. God has to have a predicate to be itself , quality contained within it.
Analytic statements would suggest that a bachlor is a subject and a predicate is a unmarried man
God is the subject, exists is the predicate