PPT Slide
Ancient & Medieval Philosophy -- David L. Rouse
Proofs for the existence of God
- While the proposition, “God exists,” is self-evident in itself, it is not self-evident to us, for we do not know what is involved in “being God.” To Anselm’s argument Aquinas replies,
“Granting, however, that someone should think of God in this way, namely as "that being a greater than which cannot be conceived, "it does not follow on this account that the person must understand what is signified to exist in the world of fact, but only in the mind. Nor can one argue that it exists in fact unless one grants that there actually exists in fact something a greater than which cannot be conceived. It is, however, precisely this assertion the atheist denies.”