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Explain the ontological argument from Anselm and Descartes.
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... Explain the ontological argument from Anselm and Descartes. "Ontological" literally means, "concerned with being". This argument was most classically put forward by Anselm (1033-1109) in his book entitled "Proslogion". The argument was critically criticized in his own time and centuries later by philosophers such as Aquinas and Kant. Among those who have supported it lays Descartes. The argument works better for those who already believe in God than for the atheist. It is doubtful Anselm intended for the ontological argument to appeal to the atheist. Kant was the first to name the argument "ontological". Charles Hartshorne thinks it should be called the "modal" argument, since it relies on the modal categories of possibility, actuality, and necessity. The argument starts of with a definition of God, saying that God is: "A being than which nothing greater can be conceived". Anselm said this is our intuitive understanding of what is meant by the concept
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