Chutzpah is an English word that comes from the Hebrew hutspa, which refers to a kind of audacious courage or a maddeningly reckless self-confidence. It can be a complement or an insult depending on ...

The ontological argument is the red-headed stepchild of philosophical arguments for the existence of God. Plantinga’s and other contemporary versions, like everything having to do with modal logic, ...

God is by definition a perfect being. It is more perfect to exist than to not exist. Therefore, God exists. Just given these simple ideas, a few axioms, and a fondness for pushing around abstract ...

Criticisms of the Ontological Argument as presented by Gaunilo. A bundle is a package of resources grouped together to teach a particular topic, or a series of lessons, in one place. A number of ...

A bundle is a package of resources grouped together to teach a particular topic, or a series of lessons, in one place. A number of resources to cover the Arguments for the existence of God ...

What makes an argument for God really weird? Well, most normal arguments for God’s existence start from something we observe in the world that points to God. But one argument starts not with what we ...

Anselm of Canterbury was a theologian and philosopher from the 11th and 12th centuries who came up with a rather ingenious argument for the existence of God, which is usually called the ontological ...

Like Bertrand Russell, I have always kind of felt that, while I can’t directly refute Anselm’s famous ontological argument for the existence of God, I am also not convinced by it. It feels to me like ...