ABSTRACT
This chapter looks critically at the question of the logical strength of some traditional arguments for God's existence. Immanuel Kant's predicate criticism of the Ontological Argument may be put the way: The Ontological Argument, in arguing that God exists by the very concept or definition of God, presupposes that exists is a predicate. The critic of the Ontological Argument was Anselm's contemporary, Gaunilo, who was a Benedictine monk, like Anselm. Gaunilo, of course, believed in God, but he did not think that Anselm's Ontological Argument proved God's existence. One apparent problem with the cosmological argument has to do with Aquinas's denial of the possibility of "going back to infinity," or of an infinite regress, which is common to the all arguments. It is sometimes remarked that the Cosmological and Teleological Arguments are closer to religious—or to theistic religious—sensibilities and have more intuitive appeal to the religious than the Ontological Argument.
