God is by definition a perfect being. It is more perfect to exist than to not exist. Therefore, God exists. Just given these simple ideas, a few axioms, and a fondness for pushing around abstract ...

Anselm of Canterbury was a theologian and philosopher from the 11th and 12th centuries who came up with a rather ingenious argument for the existence of God, which is usually called the ontological ...

Assuming S₅, the main controversial premise in modal ontological arguments is the possibility premise, such as that possibly a maximally great being exists. I shall offer a new way of arguing that the ...

Stephen Davis has argued that the second ontological argument (OA) fails as a theistic proof because it ignores the logical possibility of what he calls an ontologically impossible being. By an ...

Inductive proofs; the concept of ‘a posteriori’. Cosmological argument: St Thomas Aquinas’ first Three Ways – (motion or change; cause and effect; contingency and necessity). The Kalam cosmological ...

Jensen, Michael C., Werner Erhard, and Kari L. Granger. "Creating Leaders: An Ontological/Phenomenological Model." Chap. 16 in The Handbook for Teaching Leadership ...

The Argument from Design purports to demonstrate the existence of God by citing as evidence the appearance of design or purpose in the natural world. This argument differs from the others we have ...

The current spate of atheist, antitheist and antireligious books has made me ask myself whether I ought to be working, strictly pro bono, for the defense. Fortunately there are a host of reasonable ...