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The Philosophical Journey, 2/e
William Lawhead, The University of Mississippi

The Search for God
The Ontological Argument for God

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1

The argument seeks to demonstrate the existence of God on the basis of the concept of God's being.
2

A argument form assumes the opposite of what a person is trying to prove and goes on to show that this leads to an absurdity or contradiction.
3

One of the early developers of the ontological argument was St. , a medieval monk and Archbishop of Canterbury who lived from 1033 to 1109.
4

The monk criticized the ontological argument by arguing that the same argument form could be used to show the existence of a perfect island, which is absurd.
5

The claim that is not a property was raised by the 18th century German philosopher Immanuel Kant as an objection to the ontological argument.