ABSTRACT
This chapter considers Locke’s empiricist account of how human beings form the complex idea of God from the idea of substance and from the idea of infinity applied to the ideas of duration, power, knowledge, and pleasure. It also discusses Locke’s cosmological argument for God’s existence in the Essay, as well as texts that indicate that Locke also relies on teleological considerations (i.e., an argument from design) to establish the same conclusion.
