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This 3 page paper examines the ontological argument in depth. Ideas from Rene DesCartes are discussed. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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the existence of God are conceptual ("Ontological Argument," 2005). The propositions that make up the concept of God imply that God exists ("Ontological Argument," 2005). After all, God is perfection,
and it is more perfect to exist than not to exist. One might suggest that "ontological arguments attempt to show that we can deduce Gods existence from, so to speak,
the very definition of God" ("Ontological Argument," 2005). Thus, there need not be physical proof of Gods existence. If there is a concept of God, then God exists. The argument
seems ludicrous at first glance. One can say, using this very argument that Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny exist. At the same time, when people speak about God, and
feel that there is a God, and they know that Santa Claus is based on a story, there really is a difference. That is, man conceives of a real God,
and so God exists. Rene Descartes, for example, reasons that the representative content of the idea of infinite perfection is so wonderful that he could not have himself constructed it
and so the cause of the idea that is so perfect, must come from perfection (Honderich, 1995). The source is perfect and so a perfect idea has to have been
placed in the human mind by a perfect being or God, which is equivalent to Descartes Third Meditation (Honderich, 1995). Descartes would later supplement the sentiment to form his own
ontological argument noting that it is more perfect to exist than not to exist (Honderich, 1995). This argument waged by Descartes and others seems fraught with problems. It seems
as if God is simply a pawn in the scheme of things. Rather than being a creator, or something larger than life, God is something whose existence is to be
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