Alvin Plantinga on the ontological argument

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 65 (2):87 - 92 (2009)
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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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William Rowe
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The Nature of Necessity.Alvin Plantinga - 1974 - Oxford, England: Clarendon Press.
God, freedom, and evil.Alvin Plantinga - 1974 - Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.
God, Freedom, and Evil.Alvin Plantinga - 1978 - Religious Studies 14 (3):407-409.

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