The Ontological Argument Essay -- Philosophy Religion

The Ontological Argument In Anselm's ontological argument he is trying to prove the existence of God, his argument is an argument purely based on the mind and does not require the moral agent to venture into the real of the senses. Ontology is to do with being, or what something is. Anselm's ontological argument concerns existence and whether it is an attribute of God in the same way omnipotence, omniscience and benevolence are believed to be. The argument is an a priori argument. It does not rest on proving God's existence by relying on experimental knowledge but on showing that God must exist logically, or that God's non-existence is illogical. The main idea behind Anselm’s argument is that if I can think X to exist X must exist because it is possible to conceive it. As such the central premise of the ontological argument is: 'God is that than which nothing greater can be conceived' In other words it is better for something to exist in reality that in the mind, or to exist is the best quality something can poss...