Ontological argument

Question 1

What’s Anselm’s ontological argument?

Answer 1

“and surely that than which nothing greater can be conceived cannot exist in the understanding alone”

Question 2

What is Anselm’s argument in Proslogion 2?

Answer 2

1. God= greatest conceivable being
2. Existing in reality > existing in mind
3. therefore God must exist (or He wouldn’t be the greatest)

Question 3

Gaunilo’s ‘perfect island’ criticism

Answer 3

You can’t define things into existence (ie. a perfect island doesn’t exist js bc we imagined it)

Question 4

How does Kant critique the ontological argument

Answer 4

“existence is not a predicate” - existence adds no new properties

Question 5

what example does Kant give

Answer 5

eg. £100 in mind vs pocket is same except in existence