Alvin Plantinga on the ontological argument
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 65 (2):87 - 92 (2009)
| Abstract | By taking ‘existence in reality’ to be a great-making property and ‘God’ to be the greatest possible being, Plantinga skillfully presents Anselm’s ontological argument. However, since he proves God’s existence by virtue of a premise, “God (a maximally great being) is a possible being”, that is true only if God actually exists; his argument begs the question of the existence of God. | |||||||||
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