Arguments based on reason (ontological)

Question 1

Ontological argument

Answer 1

A priori logic nit experience

Question 2

Anselm

Answer 2

“faith seeking and understanding”

“the fool says in his heart ‘there is no god’”

• God is that which nothing greater can be conceived (thought of)
• if God could only exsist in the mind he wouldnt be the greatest being
• Gods existence is necessary and not contingent

Question 3

Descartes

Answer 3

God is perfect. Existence is a perfection. God must exsist.

Existence can’t be separated from god as triangle can’t be seperate from 3 sides

Question 4

Gaunillio

Answer 4

Critiqued anselm- argument is absurd - just cause you think of an island doesn’t mean it exists

Just defining something as perfect doesn’t make it exist

Question 5

Name of descartes book

Answer 5

meditations

Question 6

Anselms response to Gaunilo

Answer 6

Ontological argument only works for God as God exists necessarily and an island exists contingently

Question 7

Kants criticism of descartes

Answer 7

“existence is not a predicate”

has no meaning, the fact i exist does not tell you anything about my characteristics

Question 8

Russel

Answer 8

Statements about the attributes of God are only meaningful if there is an actual God.
“bald king of france”