
The Ontological Argument
In Our Time: Philosophy
Defining God in Descartes's Ontological Argument
Descartes wanted an argument which one could simply see by an immediate, clear and distinct perception within his philosophical system. Anselms has sufficient logical complexity that you can tease out a lot er, a lot more clever ways of trying to defend it. Descart's argument doesn't start from leam about anything existing. It simply starts from a definition, anout of the idea of god. But what it seems to me is problematic about descartes is that he slips existence into the definition of god.
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