Reflecting on the nature of a supreme being has generated a constellation of divine attributes. Can we make sense of them? The idea that a maximally perfect being exists necessarily is expressed in the distinctive ontological argument for the existence of God. Is the argument successful and how should we treat it? But is the idea of God really an idea that reaches out to something beyond, and distinct from, the familiar? Perhaps ‘God’ is merely the product of mundane social and psychological processes.
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- Attempts to demonstrate a priori that if God’s existence is conceivable then God must exist – God’s being is necessary.
- Strengths and weaknesses of ‘ontological arguments’ for God’s existence.
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