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Plantinga, Alvin
Professor of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame
Print publication date: 1978 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003 Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-824414-1 |
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doi:10.1093/0198244142.003.0010
Abstract: In Ch.10, I apply the previous chapters’ account of modality to the Ontological Argument for the existence of God. I begin the chapter by attempting to develop a sound version of the Ontological Argument based on the work of St. Anselm. I conclude that this argument fails, as does a more recent attempt by Charles Hartshorne and Norman Malcolm. I then give a modal version of the Ontological Argument that is sound and is based on the claim that the property of unsurpassable greatness is possibly exemplified. I grant that this premise is not likely to be accepted by those who do not already hold that the property is actually exemplified, but I argue that it is still rational to accept the premise.
Keywords: Anselm, existence, God, Charles Hartshorne, Norman Malcolm, modal, Ontological Argument,
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