PHI 1104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Critical Thinking, Human Nature, Ontological Argument

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 1104
• Professor: Laura Byrne

Document Summary

Office hours: monday from 12:00-2:00 in desmarais 8118. Such as a god or karma that we need to follow. Refers to the ontological argument as faith seeking understanding . As a philosopher he wants to know if he can prove that god exists but as a religious man, he believes it. If you start with a certain definition of god, you can infer, or deduce the existence of. That is, by working out what follows from a certain definition of god, the logical mind can prove that god exists. The definition of god: god is something than which nothing greater can be thought. This forms premise one: that god is something than which nothing greater can be thought. Existence in the understanding, in the mind alone. Premise two: existence in reality is greater than existence in the mind alone. Conclusion: therefore, god exists in reality. (otherwise, he would not be something than which nothing greater can be thought. )