Existence of God

argument is that present existence of contingent objects requires that there be a necessary being” (Evans & Manis, 2009). As mentioned McCloskey claims that everything requires a cause for its existence; therefore God requires a cause for his existence. Evans and Manis discuss it this way, the argument assumes that all contingent beings require a cause for their existence; however, God is not a contingent being; only a self-existent or necessary being can qualify for the title of “God.” (Evans &…

René Descartes built the argument for God’s existence more than once in his “Discourse on Method and Meditations of First Philosophy”, and it wasn’t easy. The basis for his first ultimate proof of God’s existence is developed in Meditation One and Two, in which he establishes how one can know things, and builds certainty of his own existence from the ground up. Meditation Three includes his first attempt at defining God’s existence with a logical proof, in which Descartes takes the power of…

St. Anselm of Canterbury came up with an argument which attempts to prove the existence of God by proving the apparent absurdity of the atheist opinion. Anselm contrasts the ideas of existing in the understanding and existing in reality to show that God must truly exist in reality. The earliest critic of the ontological argument is a monk from Marmoutier named Gaunilo who believed that we can use logic to prove things that we have no reason to believe to be true. Gaunilo believed that he could…

The cosmological argument for God’s existence has been called the empiricists’ form of argument. This is because it starts on the basis of human encounter with the physical universe. There are forms of this argument in the philosophies of Plato and Aristotle. However, its most eloquent representation is found in the philosophy of Saint Thomas Aquinas, a Dominican priest. He was basically an Aristotelian philosopher. In his time, he argued for the existence of God not minding the existential…

Anselm’s ontological argument 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…

the aspect of God existence into the God essence. To support his argument, Descartes argues that the confidence that people have towards the truthfulness of things it is based on the unshaken power of God (Monte 12). In the Ontological argument, Descartes point out that the attribution of existence to all-powerful good God had more weight than a more powerful demon. It is out of this argument whereby Descartes envisaged that the reality is based on the concept of all-powerful good God. Based on…

purports to be an a priori proof of God's existence (The Ontological Argument 2016). Anselm starts with premises that do not depend on experience for their justification and then proceeds through pure logic to reach the conclusion that God exists. His purpose is to correct the fool who says in his heart that there is no God (Psalms 14:1). This “fool” has two specific features: 1) He understands the statement that God exists. 2) He doesn't believe in God’s existence. In Chapter 2 of the…

outlining an argument as to why God is real. Descartes was writing at the same time of the scientific revolution and he even contributed to scientific discoveries. Therefore, it is questionable as to whether Descartes leans more towards science or religion. His ontological argument goes step by step trying to prove God’s existence, but due to its…

paved the way and defined theology as “faith seeking understanding”. His works in monologium justify Gods existence and his work in proslogium give more insight into the idea that God does indeed exist. He was born near Aosta Italy in 1033, he was taught by monks from an early age. He went to Lanfranc’s abbey and they began to teach at their school and it was during those days that he composed Gods argument. He later became archbishop of Canterbury and maintained his studies. To understand…

the existence of a god. Throughout the history of humanity, there have been many speculations on this topic in particular, which has seemed to point towards many different possibilities. Saint Anselm provides a controversial argument for the rationalization of god’s existence, which requires a thorough analysis. The first aspect of this argument that attracts my…