ABSTRACT
We can begin our consideration of arguments for God’s existence with the first of three large groups of arguments (the ontological, the cosmological and the teleological) which have gained a sort of classic status as arguments for God’s existence. Just as Aquinas’s Five Ways were once thought of as one significant cluster of arguments, so are these three. But there is only a historical reason for this. They are not as a group obviously any stronger than other arguments and there is no reason for separating them out for special treatment. The only reason that they are treated as a triumvirate is that Kant declared in his discussion of God’s existence that they constituted the only three possible proofs for the existence of God (he did not include his own attempted proof from morality).
