Ontological

Question 1

What is this argument

Answer 1

A priori

Question 2

Where did Anselm write his argument?

Answer 2

Proslogians 2 and 3

Question 3

What are they based on

Answer 3

Psalm (fool says that there is no God)

Question 4

What is the quote

Answer 4

‘That than which no greater can be conceived’

Question 5

Only in…

…

Answer 5

Intellectu

Ré

Question 6

What is his argument

Answer 6

Better to exist in intellectu and in re than just in intellectu, and God is greatest thing imaginable he must exist in more than in re otherwise something greater = exists in intellectu and in re

Question 7

Descartes challenges

Answer 7

‘On behalf of fool’
Using Anselm’s logic the greatest island i could imagine must exists, but this is not the case, therefore it works the same for God, just because you can picture the greatest thing it does not mean it exists

Question 8

What does Anselm respond with…

Answer 8

Island is contingent
God is necessary as greater to be necessary than contingent
Cannot compare an island to God

Question 9

Descartes ontological argument

Answer 9

PREDICATES
Innate moral awareness stamped on us

Predicates of perfection = existence
‘God exists’ = analytic statement
Triangle = predicates
Take away predicates is not God so he must have them therefore must exist

Question 10

Kants response to ontological

Answer 10

Existence is not predicate nor is perfection
100 thallers
If he does exists to remove one = illogical
If he does not exist = no predicates = no contradiction = does not have to exist

Question 11

Malcolm’s ontological argument

Answer 11

Does not exists cannot come into existence as impossible
Good exists impossible to go out of existence = necessary
Not impossible therefore necessary otherwise logical contradiction