A modified Meditation: exploring a grounding modal ontological argument

I present an argument for God's existence based on the idea that the possibility of God requires the existence of God as a ground. After setting this argument out, I compare it to other arguments for God, concentrating on an argument from Descartes's Third Meditation. I then address variou...

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Autor principal: Kearns, Stephen (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Publicado: 2022
En: Religious studies
Año: 2022, Volumen: 58, Número: 4, Páginas: 801-813
(Cadenas de) Palabra clave estándar:B Descartes, René 1596-1650, philosophia 3-5 / Prueba ontológica de la existencia de Dios / Cuestión de la existencia de Dios
Clasificaciones IxTheo:AB Filosofía de la religión
NBC Dios
Otras palabras clave:B Grounding
B Ontological Argument
B modal ontological argument
B meditations
B Descartes
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Sumario:I present an argument for God's existence based on the idea that the possibility of God requires the existence of God as a ground. After setting this argument out, I compare it to other arguments for God, concentrating on an argument from Descartes's Third Meditation. I then address various objections and conclude by setting out a non-theistic version of the argument.
ISSN:1469-901X
Obras secundarias:Enthalten in: Religious studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S0034412521000421