
The Ontological Argument
In Our Time: Philosophy
The Ontology of God
Simitabat anselm, who first formulated what became known later actully by kant as the ontologicala that's right. Descartes basically says, god is a perfect being. The existence is a perfection. What anselm wants to do is focus on the concept of god as something than which nothing greater can be thought. So god is, by definition, something so great that you can't possibly think of anything greater.
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