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Ontological Arguments

Ontological Arguments
  • Tyron Goldschmidt
  • Published online:
    06 November 2020
    Print publication:
    03 December 2020
  • Proving the existence of God is a perennial philosophical ambition. An armchair proof would be the jackpot. Ontological arguments promise as much. This Element studies the most famous ontological arguments from Anselm, Descartes, Plantinga, and others besides. While the verdict is that ontological arguments don't work, they get us entangled in fun philosophical puzzles, from philosophy of religion to philosophy of language, from metaphysics to ethics, and beyond.

  • Chapter 5 - Suárez's cosmological argument for the existence of God

  • Edited by Daniel Schwartz, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • Book:
    Interpreting Suárez
    Published online:
    05 December 2011
    Print publication:
    15 December 2011, pp 89-114

  • Summary

    This chapter examines Francisco Suárez's cosmological argument for the existence of God, and offers a critical evaluation of the argument. It examines in detail Suárez's argument and its logical structure, as well as proposed objections and rebuttals to the objections. Traditional arguments for the existence of God can be divided into three categories: (1) ontological arguments, (2) teleological arguments, and (3) cosmological arguments. These categories are based on the kind of evidence an argument uses as premises in support of its conclusion. Suárez's argument for the existence of God begins with a metaphysical cosmological argument for the existence of an uncreated being. He then defines God as an uncreated being and the creator of all things. He deliberately avoids the version of the cosmological argument based on physical principles taken from natural philosophy.