PHIL 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Ontological Argument

• School: Fordham University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1000
• Professor: Nicholas Berry

Document Summary

The idea of god couldn"t exist if god didn"t exist. He, as a thinking thing, could not exist without a real god. Deception would be some kind of wickedness of will, which would be a kind of imperfection, but god is infinite so he is perfect, so he can not be a deceiver. Some source of error that is not traceable back to god. God is not responsible for our erroneous beliefs. Whenever we have false beliefs it is the lack of something true rather than the lack of something false. The argument that god, being defined as most great or perfect, must exist, since a. God who exists is greater than a god who does not. 3 sides, angles add up to 180. Cant picture a triangle without these properties. Doesn"t matter if know what triangle is. God existence is part of his essence. We cannot separate the idea of a mountain from a valley.