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Strengths and Weaknesses of Anselm’s Ontological argument for the existence of God.
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A brief summary of Anselm’s ontological argument for the existence of God. Includes Kant and Descartes, Year 1 and AS philosophy and Ethics of Religion

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Strengths and weaknesses of Anselm’s Ontological argument

Kant’s criticisms

 Existence is not a predicate:
Both Anselm and Descartes view God as being with every perfection including that of
existence. But for Kant, existence is not a predicate. It adds nothing to our understanding of
the concept of God.

Schopenhauer:
Claimed the ontological argument was a slight of hand trick

Overview of strengths and weaknesses:

Strengths :
Deductive
Doesn't depend on human observation
Not an argument but an expression of faith, thus valuable to religious believers.
Not unreasonable for religious believers

Weaknesses:
Issues with the definition of God
Problem of evil
Not based on observation
Doesn't actually work deductively
Schopenhauer- does it actually tell us anything

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