PHILOS 14 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: East Los Angeles College, Omnibenevolence, Immanuel Kant
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Modern philosophy of logic- there is no logical argument that has repudiated the ontological argument of descartes. Basic concepts of existence as such are important to this argument. The idea of god, a supremely perfect being, is no different from ideas of numbers. Ends perfectisum" a most perfect being cannot be the sum totals of incomplete/imperfect ideas. God exists has the same propositional certainty as math. We distinguish between the essence and existence. However, with god, a supremely perfect being is totally perfect and lacks nothing. But if we attempt to think of this thing as nonexistent, then i"m thinking a supremely perfect being that is not perfect. Existence is a necessary feature of perfection. everything. Immanuel kant- argues, existence is not a predicate, rather existence is the absolute position of the thing with all of its predicates. if we"re talking about. God, a being that has to have the attribute of omniscience, omnipotent, omni benevolent, etc.
