PHIL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Ontological Argument, Logical Form
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If actor is free agent can choose between alternative choices of action: Can help someone struggling across street or push into oncoming tra c. If the free will defense undercuts de nitively this argument from evil: satisfactory data with the. Possible for good and evil to coexist in same world. Just because argument for non existence of god doesn"t show the existence of god. 3 main proofs for gods existence: (from most easily seen and understood to most di cult) 1. teleological argument-one looks out into world and notices something that seems to be goal directed and seems to exhibit purpose. Theres at least one premise known as posteriori-known posterior to or after one has had a particular experience. Theres an existential conclusion: cosmological argument-in short, the universe exists therefor god exists, ontological argument-in short, whatever is self evident is true, therefor god exists. Drive to proof: argument based on description of gods nature.
