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The Ontological Argument

Authors: Hämäläinen Nora Fiona Karolina

Year: 2022

Type of publication: kapitola v odborné knize

Name of source: The Murdochian Mind

Publisher name: Taylor & Francis Ltd.

Place: Abingdon

Page from-to: 80-91

Titles:

Language	Name	Abstract	Keywords
cze	The Ontological Argument	This chapter is born out of my puzzlement over Murdoch’s discussion of the ontological proof, or argument, in chapter 13 of Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals (hereafter, MGM).1 Here she dwells on Anselm’s classical argument concerning the necessary existence of God. This argument, presented both by Anselm and by later debaters in many forms, can roughly be cashed out in the idea that God, as a perfect being, has all the perfections, which include existence. Thus, if we can conceive of him at all, he is necessarily real.	Iris Murdoch; ontological argument; reality
eng	The Ontological Argument	This chapter is born out of my puzzlement over Murdoch’s discussion of the ontological proof, or argument, in chapter 13 of Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals (hereafter, MGM).1 Here she dwells on Anselm’s classical argument concerning the necessary existence of God. This argument, presented both by Anselm and by later debaters in many forms, can roughly be cashed out in the idea that God, as a perfect being, has all the perfections, which include existence. Thus, if we can conceive of him at all, he is necessarily real.	Iris Murdoch; ontological argument; reality

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