The existence of the God have been a question probably for the whole history of humanity. There are a plenty of arguments for God’s existence, and in this paper I am going to review Anselm’s argument for the existence of the being nothing greater than which can be conceived, one of the strongest among others. At first, I am going to summarize the argument, and then, as every argument for the God’s existence has its own defects, I am going to answer the following question – what are the weaknesses of this argument? After that, I will respond to the strongest possible objection to my attack, and then give you a summary.
Anselm’s argument is based on the idea that God is the greatest conceivable being (a). We understand